The story of Scheherazade #history #art #painting

[HistorybyMae]

Scheherazade is the fictional Persian Queen in the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as One Thousand and One Nights. She is the narrator, and the 1001 tales are the stories she told the sultan every night.

The work was collected over many centuries by various authors across West Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, and North Africa. Some tales trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Sanskrit, Persian, and Mesopotamian literature.

Fun fact: Considering the nature of this channel and the fact I am Persian (Iranian), I’ve always felt as though she were my spirit animal.

Summary:
The monarch Shahryar, on discovering that his first wife was unfaithful to him, resolved to marry a new virgin every day and to have her beheaded the next morning before she could dishonor him. Eventually, the vizier could find no more virgins of noble blood and, against her father's wishes, Scheherazade volunteered to marry the king.

Once in the king's chambers, Scheherazade asked if she might bid one last farewell to her beloved younger sister, Dunyazad, who had secretly been prepared to ask Scheherazade to tell a story during the long night. The king lay awake and listened with awe as Scheherazade told her first story. The night passed by, and Scheherazade stopped in the middle. The king asked her to finish, but Scheherazade said there was no time, as dawn was breaking. So the king spared her life for one day so she could finish the story the next night. The following night Scheherazade finished the story and then began a second, more exciting tale, which she again stopped halfway through at dawn. Again, the king spared her life for one more day so that she could finish the second story.

Thus the king kept Scheherazade alive day by day, as he eagerly anticipated the conclusion of each previous night's story. At the end of 1, 001 nights, and 1, 000 stories, Scheherazade finally told the king that she had no more tales to tell him. She summoned her three sons that she had bore him during the 1000 nights to come in before the king.

Then she kissed the ground again and said: "King of the age, these are your children and my wish is that as an act of generosity towards them to free me from sentence of death, for if you kill me, these babies will have no mother and you will find no other woman to bring them up so well." The king granted her a pardon as he could see that she was a "chaste and pure woman, freeborn and God-fearing." She was celebrated throughout his kingdom for 30 days.

[storytimewithsushi]

If you think about it, she saved the lives of 1, 001 women

[lasennui]

I've always loved this story. It's not a romance. It's a brave and intelligent woman saving a kingdom from a madman through storytelling mastery.

[Escapist-qvet]

The only girl who succeeded in "I can fix him."

[samoea]

She hit him with the " find out next time on Drangon Ball Z!"😅

[theyounggamer]

She saved many women from being killed because of the Sultan's fear and power. I doubt she loved him or even grew to love him after he killed a thousand women. She was smart and brave and an excellent storyteller. And she loved her sister very much. She survived 3 years, bore three children, and still was so afraid that she might die if she had no story to tell that she felt the need to ask to be spared when the time came. Three years of entertaining the Sultan would mean nothing if all he saw her as was entertainment and a child-maker.

[TAVEROS]

this was actually the source of many stories nowadays! Aladin was apart of the 1001 nights :D

[nmg]

I feel like something is lost in this telling. For one Shaharazad’s sister would have been sacrificed and so she volunteers herself instead. Also that the telling of the stories was very calculated to save her sister and the other women. Shaharazad was a hero and a shrewd warrior.

[AshleyReid-bi]

I can say with confidence she never saw him as anything more then what he was. And she knew she was taking the place of possibly thousands of more women. She was a protector and I’m happy his story will only ever be told through her.

[Barbara-lusj]

"Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something!" for 1001 nights.😊

[ShreyasmitaPaul-fd]

She saved herself 👎
She saved 1001 lives 🙌

[ttilah___]

i hate that this is portrayed as being romantic in any way, it really reflects the time period. like wow hes a mass murderer who only values women for sex and one of his victims is lucky enough to find a way out of being slaughtered like a worthless animal.. truly a love story for the ages!

[leonora]

As a young girl I heard about this and was very confused why he would kill the women who did nothing wrong. Never forgot that. Didn’t make the stories very appealing to me as a child as I could never forget this one fact.

[ВаряВетренная]

Being fair, she actually proved some sort of loyalty and determination by keeping up this challenge

[Theaphilius_Mythology_Channel]

I am speechless ... what a mesmerizing painting/paintings and astonishing music.

[just_swiftly_shake_it_off_]

Scheherazade is also a BEAUTIFUL orchestra piece!! As a violinist, I’ve had the pleasure to play it.

[ArgentumFox]

The version I read omitted the fact that Scheherazade had a younger sister. This lends even more weight to her decision to volunteer, as she knows that if the Sultan continues this practice, sooner or later he'll get to her sister.

[unalakes]

And they say women are over emotional, just get over it dude

[Dutiyf]

Finding out the Sultan gets passed around like a blunt is crazy 💀💀

[rosemarie-graceorr]

Suddenly that one line in Aladdin makes so much more sense 😂