Tales of Arabian Nights

Tales of Arabian Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales.

Arabian Nights is also known as One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: أَلْف لَيْلَة وَلَيْلَة‎ ʾAlf layla wa-layla). The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, and South Asia and North Africa. The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Greek, Indian, Jewish, Persian and Turkish folklore and literature. In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Abbasid era, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hezār Afsān (Persian: هزار افسان‎, lit. A Thousand Tales), which in turn relied partly on Indian elements.

Tales of Arabian Nights (1001 Nights) is one of the greatest works of the world, especially in the field of literature. Most of the compositions are collections of mythology of ancient Arab, Iran and Indian countries. The stories are full of imaginative, talismanic and magical events.

By reading a moral English story from this app every day, you can help your young ones build values, as well as improve their reading comprehension skills.

If you are a fan of arabian nights stories along with various themes such as short stories about magic, imagination, love, family, motivation, values, educational, everyday stories, you can find dozen of the best stories of all time in this app. Tales of Arabian Nights (Alif Laila) is a 1001 Nights Stories app in English that is easy to use with an attractive interface design.

Main Features:

* Small Size - As all tales/stories are in text format, so app size is very small as campared to order apps

* Zoom and Change Text Size - zoom option to increase size of the story text

* Favorite - You can easily add their tales/stories to favorites to read it later.

* Share - Tales/Stories can be shared to all available social networks, such as facebook, twitter, whatsapp, instagram etc.

* Text Selection - As requested by many users, we have enabled Text selection on the story page. Long press on the story to activate the feature.

* Totally offline

* Some of the stories from Tales of Arabian Nights:

- Shahryār and Scheherazade

- The Merchant and the Genie

- The Fisherman

- The Second Old Man with Two Black Dogs

- The First Old Man with the Hind

- The Wazir Who Was Punished

- The Young King of the Black Isles

- The Greek King and the Physician Douban

- The Husband and the Parrot

- The Three Kalendars, Sons of Kings, and of Five Ladies of Baghdad

- The First Kalendar, Son of a King

- The Second Kalendar, Son of a King

- The Envious Man

- Story of the Third Kalendar, Son of a King

- The Little Hunchback

- The Barber's Fifth Brother

- The Barber's Sixth Brother

- The Story of Sidi-Nouman

- The Story of Ali Colia, Merchant of Baghdad

- Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badoura

- Noureddin and the Fair Persian

- Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

- The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid

- The Blind Baba-Abdalla

- The Enchanted Hors

- The Story of the three Sisters

- The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the sailor

- And Many More...

What is common throughout all the editions of the Nights is the initial frame story of the ruler Shahryār and his wife Scheherazade and the framing device incorporated throughout the tales themselves. The stories proceed from this original tale; some are framed within other tales, while others begin and end of their own accord. Some editions contain only a few hundred nights, while others include 1,001 or more. The bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is occasionally used for songs and riddles and to express heightened emotion. Most of the poems are single couplets or quatrains, although some are longer.