Les Mille et Une Nuits - Conte

The Thousand and One Nights, a collection of folk tales from the Middle East

The Arabian Nights is a collection of folk tales from the Middle East. The stories found their roots in folklore and Arabic literature, Persian, Mesopotamian, Indian, Jewish, Egyptian and medieval.

The story of the main frame of the "Arabian Nights" concerns Shahryar sasanien a king in India and China. He killed his wife for his infidelity. And he decided that all women are the same. Shahryar begins to marry a succession of virgins only to execute each one the next morning. Finally, Scheherazade is proposed as the next bride. On the night of their marriage, Scheherazade begins to tell the king a story, but it does not finish. The king, curious to know how the story ends, is thus forced to postpone his execution in order to hear the conclusion. This lasted 1001 nights.

** Application:

The "Thousand and One Nights - Popular Tales" gives you access to these tales you can view FREE and free internet in your Android phone. You can also create your favorite list of stories and share with your relative.

** List of tales:

Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp

Ali Baba

Jullanar or Badr Basim

History of Qamar az-Zaman

The Enchanted Horse, or The History of the horse ebony

The al-Ma'mun Marriage

History of the envious and envied

The Tale of the Merchant Ayyub, his Ghanim son and daughter Fitna

Epic of Umar an-Nu'man

The Tricks of women

Sinbad the Sailor

Tale of two viziers and Anis Al-Jalis

The Fisherman and the Jinni

The Tale of the Tailor, the Hunchback, the Jew, the Christian and Steward

History Cogia

The Tale of the vizier Nur ad-Din and his brother Shams ad-Din

The story of Prince Ahmed and Pari-Banu

Kamaralzaman and Boudour princess

The Caliph and the Caliphate

The Jouvencelle, Lieutenant birds

The Merchant and the Devil

The Porters and the three ladies that itself contains the history of the Three Calenders,

Seven viziers

History Hassan tailpiece

Sidi Noumane

... etc.

** Note:

The texts used in this application are by Antoine Galland and are available under Creative Commons Attribuation-sharing under the same conditions.