The first written evidence of what are known in English as The Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights dates from the early ninth century. Two damaged and discolored pages from a book called The Thousand Nights, discovered in Cairo but originally from Syria, sketch the primal scene of storytelling: a character named Dinazad […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/11/03/annotated-arabian-nights-yasmine-seale/