Shahrazad

Shahrazad, a slave-girl of royal descent, in the original of the tale of "Hazar Afsan" (A Thousand Tales), as Ibn al-Nadim reports. A king who used to kill his wife the next day married her. She began to talk to him and would leave the story unfinished at the end of the night, so he kept her alive for a thousand nights ².

She bore him a son. She showed the boy to the king and told him of her stratagem, and he judged her wise and kept her alive. Dinarzad, the king's chamberlain, helped her ².

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