One Thousand and One Nights is a book that includes a collection of stories from West and South Asia, in addition to folk tales that were collected and translated into Arabic during the Golden Age of Islam. This book is also known as the Arabian Nights in the English language, since the first English version of it was published in the year 1706 AD.
It is not known who authored this work or his nationality. The work was collected over centuries, by authors, translators, and researchers from West, Central, and South Asia and North Africa, and the stories go back to the ancient and medieval centuries of the Arab, Persian, Indian, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian civilizations. Most of the tales were basically folk stories and legends and were distorted... What is known and common in all versions of the One Thousand and One Nights is the beginning, which is the story of the ruler Shahriyar and his wife Scheherazade, which was included in all the tales.