One Thousand and One Nights

The story of "One Thousand and One Nights" consists of three parts. The first part is a collection of ancient Persian stories called "Khzor Afsaneh" ("A Thousand Stories"). The stories originate from India, originally in Sanskrit, and later translated into Persian and then into Arabic, with some Arabic stories incorporated into it; the second part originates from the Abbasid dynasty in Iraq, especially the stories during the reign of Harun al-Rashid; the third part is about the Maimalik dynasty of Egypt.