scheherazade

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şehrazat
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Scheherazade (storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights)
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A female name
Two pieces by Maurice Ravel
The virgin storyteller of the king in One Thousand and One Nights
Sheherazade the woman who tells the stories in The Arabian Nights. Scheherazade marries a man who always kills his wife on the night after the wedding. To prevent him from killing her too, she tells him part of an interesting story and then says she will tell him the rest of the story the next night. Because he wants to hear the end of the story, he does not kill her. She does this every night for one thousand and one nights, and after this, he allows her to live. 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
A musical suite by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakow inspired by this character
Sheherazade
scheherazade

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    [ sh&-"her-&-'zäd; ] (noun.) German Scheherezade, from Persian ShIrazAd.
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