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| - Shahryār (also Shahriār, Shahriyār or Schahryār, Persian: شهريار, meaning The Great King) is the fictional Sassanid King of kings in One Thousand and One Nights, who is told stories by his wife, Shahrazad. He ruled over a Persian Empire extended to India, over all the adjacent islands and a great way beyond the Ganges as far as China, while Shahryār’s younger brother, Shāhzamān (شاهزمان) ruled over Samarkand. There is an anomaly in the story, for the King Shahryār is a Sassanid, and thus a Zoroastrian and not a Muslim as most of the stories' characters are.
- Shahryār or Shahriār or Shahriyār or Schahryār (Persian: شهريار, meaning The Great King) was the Sassanid King of kings who ruled over a Persian Empire extending to India, over all the adjacent islands and a great way beyond the Ganges as far as China, while Shahryār’s younger brother, Shāhzamān (شاهزمان) ruled over Samarkand. The King Shahryār was a Sassanid, and thus a Zoroastrian and not a Muslim, which was the prevelent religion of that region.
- Shahryār is the fictional Persian Sassanid King of kings who is told stories by his wife, Scheherazade. He ruled over a Persian Empire extended to India, over all the adjacent islands and a great way beyond the Ganges as far as China, while Shahryār’s younger brother, Shāhzamā, ruled over Samarkand.
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| - Shahryār is the fictional Persian Sassanid King of kings who is told stories by his wife, Scheherazade. He ruled over a Persian Empire extended to India, over all the adjacent islands and a great way beyond the Ganges as far as China, while Shahryār’s younger brother, Shāhzamā, ruled over Samarkand. In the frame-story, Shahryār is betrayed by his first wife, which makes him believe that all women will, in the end, betray him. So every night for three years, he takes a wife and has her executed the next morning, until he marries Scheherazade, his vizier’s beautiful and clever daughter. For 1001 nights in a row, Scheherazade tells Shahryār a story, each time stopping at dawn with a cliffhanger, thus forcing him to keep her alive for another day so that she can complete the tale the next night.
- Shahryār (also Shahriār, Shahriyār or Schahryār, Persian: شهريار, meaning The Great King) is the fictional Sassanid King of kings in One Thousand and One Nights, who is told stories by his wife, Shahrazad. He ruled over a Persian Empire extended to India, over all the adjacent islands and a great way beyond the Ganges as far as China, while Shahryār’s younger brother, Shāhzamān (شاهزمان) ruled over Samarkand. There is an anomaly in the story, for the King Shahryār is a Sassanid, and thus a Zoroastrian and not a Muslim as most of the stories' characters are. In the frame-story, Shahryār is betrayed by his wife, which makes him go mad and believe that all women will, in the end, betray him. So every night for three years, the mad king takes a wife and has her executed the next morning, until he marries Scheherazade , his vizier’s beautiful and clever daughter. For 1001 nights in a row, Scheherazade tells Shahryār a story, each time stopping at dawn with a cliffhanger, thus forcing him to keep her alive for another day so that she can complete the tale the next night.
- Shahryār or Shahriār or Shahriyār or Schahryār (Persian: شهريار, meaning The Great King) was the Sassanid King of kings who ruled over a Persian Empire extending to India, over all the adjacent islands and a great way beyond the Ganges as far as China, while Shahryār’s younger brother, Shāhzamān (شاهزمان) ruled over Samarkand. The King Shahryār was a Sassanid, and thus a Zoroastrian and not a Muslim, which was the prevelent religion of that region. When Shahryār was betrayed by one of his wives he became immensely suspicious of women, believing that they would all betray him in the end. For three years, the king would take a wife and have her executed the next morning, until he married Scheherazade, the daughter of his vizier. Scheherazade spent 1001 nights telling Shahryār various stories ending each night with a cliffhanger so that, in order to hear the end of the story, Shahryār would have to keep her alive.
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