Scheherazade is a major female character and the storyteller in the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the One Thousand and One Nights. The story goes that the monarch Shahryar, on discovering that his first wife was unfaithful to him, resolved to marry a new virgin every day. Eventually the vizier could find no more virgins of noble blood and offers his own daughter as the king’s next bride.
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Scheherazade is a major female character and the storyteller in the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the One Thousand and One Nights. The story goes that the monarch Shahryar, on discovering that his first wife was unfaithful to him, resolved to marry a new virgin every day and have her beheaded the next morning before she could dishonour him.
Eventually the vizier could find no more virgins of noble blood and offers his own daughter, Scheherazades, as the king’s next bride. The name derives from an Arabic form of the Middle Persian name Čehrāzād, which is composed of the words čehr and āZād.
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