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So every night for three years, he takes a wife and has her executed the next morning, until he marries Scheherazade, his vizier’s beautiful and clever daughter. In the frame-story, Shahryar is betrayed by his wife, which makes him believe that all women will, in the end, betray him. He ruled over a Persian Empire extended to India, over all the adjacent islands and a great way beyond the Ganges as far as China, while Shahryar's younger brother, Shah Zaman ruled over Samarkand. Shahryar ( Persian: شهریار, Šahryār also spelt Shahriar, Shariar, Shahriyar, Schahryar, Sheharyar, Shaheryar, Shahrayar, Shaharyar, or Shahrear), which is pronounced / Sha ree yaar/ in Persian, is the fictional Persian Sassanid King of kings who is told stories by his wife, Scheherazade. Marie-Éléonore Godefroid, Scheherazade and Shahryar, circa 1842 The treacherous sorcerer in Disney's Aladdin, Jafar, is named after this character. At the end of the 1,001 nights, Scheherazade's father goes to Samarkand where he replaces Shah Zaman as sultan. It does not work, and she marries Shahryar anyway. The vizier tells Scheherazade the Tale of the Bull and the Ass, in an attempt to discourage his daughter from marrying the king. He does this for many years until all the unmarried women in the kingdom have either been killed or run away, at which point his own daughter Scheherazade offers to marry the king. Every day, on the king's order, he beheads the brides of Shahryar. Scheherazade's Father, sometimes called Jafar ( Persian: جعفر Arabic: جَعْفَر, jaʿfar), is the vizier of King Shahryar. She is recast as a major character as the narrator of the "Dunyazadiad" segment of John Barth's novel Chimera. At the successful conclusion of the tales, Dunyazad marries Shah Zaman, Shahryar's younger brother. Dunyazad, brought to her sister's bedchamber so that she could say farewell before Scheherazade's execution the next morning, asks her sister to tell one last story. In the story cycle, it is she who-at Scheherazade's instruction-initiates the tactic of cliffhanger storytelling to prevent her sister's execution by Shahryar. 'of noble or exalted lineage' or 'of noble appearance/origin'), Dunyazad ĭunyazad ( Persian: دنیازاد, Dunyāzād aka Dunyazade, Dunyazatde, Dinazade, or Dinarzad) is the younger sister of Queen Scheherazade. The name derives from the Persian šahr ( شهر‎, 'city') and -zâd ( زاد‎, 'child of') or from the Middle-Persian čehrāzād, wherein čehr means 'lineage' and āzād, 'noble' or 'exalted' (i.e. This forces the King to keep her alive for another day so that she could resume the tale at night. For 1,001 nights, Scheherazade tells her husband a story, stopping at dawn with a cliffhanger. She is the daughter of the kingdom's vizier and the older sister of Dunyazad.Īgainst her father's wishes, she marries King Shahryar, who has vowed that he will execute a new bride every morning. 'child of the city') is the legendary Persian queen who is the storyteller and narrator of The Nights. Scheherazade or Shahrazad ( Persian: شهرزاد, Šahrzād, or شهرزاد‎, Šahrāzād, lit. Home - Search - New Listings - Authors - Titles - Subjects - Serialsīooks - News - Features - Archives - The Inside StoryĮdited by John Mark Ockerbloom copyrights and licenses.Scheherazade in the palace of her husband, Shahryar Help with reading books - Report a bad link - Suggest a new listing by Miss Pardoe (page images at HathiTrust)

The Thousand and One Days: A Companion to the Arabian Nights (London: W.New Arabian Nights, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text).

Fairy Tales From the Arabian Nights (London: J.by Richard Francis Burton (frame-dependent HTML at wollamshram.ca) The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments (full 16-volume version includes Supplemental Nights), trans.Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images.by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith, illust.