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Scheherazade
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Scheherazade: see Thousand and One Nights Thousand and One Nights or Arabian Nights, series of anonymous stories in Arabic, considered as an entity to be among the classics of world literature.
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Scheherazade

 or Sheherazade

Fictional sultan's wife who narrated The Thousand and One Nights. According to the story that serves as the collection's framework, the Sultan Shahryar found his first wife unfaithful, and, after deciding that he hated all women, he married and killed a new wife each day. Scheherazade, daughter of his vizier, in an effort to avoid his previous wives' fate, related to him a fascinating story every night, promising to finish it on the following night. The sultan enjoyed the stories so much that he put off her execution indefinitely and finally abandoned the idea altogether.


Scheherazade
escapes being put to death by telling stories for 1001 nights. [Arab. Lit.: Arabian Nights]
See : Cunning

Scheherazade
spins yams for Sultan for 1001 nights. [Arab. Lit.: Arabian Nights]

Scheherazade
forestalls her execution with 1,001 tales. [Arab. Lit.: Arabian Nights]


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Mojab, Shahrzad (2001), "Theorizing the Politics of 'Islamic Feminism'," Feminist Review, 69 (Winter), pp.
A few examples follow from Mahfouz's book: [Shahriyar refers to Shahrzad tales reflecting the role of imagination in the Middle East] "Her stories are white magic" "They open up worlds that invite reflection.
Research on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Beliefs and Traditions Among Afghan Refugees, Davood Ghatrifi, Rouhollah Ghatrifi, Shahrzad Eivazkhani, and Maryam Ghatrifi, International Research Development Pars Institute, Iran Becoming a refugee causes great anxiety and stress and also leads to deprivation of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services.
 
 
 
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