The Thousand and One Nights: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Robert Irwin, The Arabian Nights: A Companion (1994), is a valuable introduction; David Pinault, Story-Telling Techniques in the Arabian Nights (1992), examines the style and structure of the work as a whole and of several individual tales.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Invalidated site: BBC - The Forum - The One Thousand and One Nights. | Aug 27, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Annenberg Learner - "The Thousand and One Nights". | Dec 13, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - RN Drive - Bluffer's Guide to 1001 Arabian Nights. | Oct 03, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - The Forum - The One Thousand and One Nights. | Aug 21, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Western Michigan University - ScholarWorks - An artful examination of the stories within the story One Thousand and One Nights as they evolve through history and the world. (PDF). | Mar 28, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project ? Words of Wisdom: Intro to Philosophy - "1001 Nights". | Jan 17, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Narrativity in The Thousand and One Nights (PDF). | Aug 02, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Annenberg Learner - The Thousand and One Nights. | May 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Central Florida Pressbooks - The Thousand and One Nights. | Dec 29, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - 1001 Nights. | Sep 06, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Encyclopaedia Iranica - Alf Layla Wa Layla. | Nov 14, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 01, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Kent - Encounters with the Orient - The Arabian Nights in European Literature - An Anthology. | Nov 22, 2020 | ||
| Clarified the relationship of the tales of Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sindbad the Sailor to the rest of the collection. | Sep 24, 2019 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jan 18, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Archive - "The thousand and one nights". | Jan 11, 2019 | ||
| Changed alternate title from The Arabian Nights' Entertainment to The Arabian Nights and changed the description of the work from a "collection of Oriental stories" to a "collection of largely Middle Eastern and Indian stories." | Jul 09, 2013 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 30, 2009 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | May 16, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | May 16, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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