The Thousand and One Nights, a collection of about 200 stories, is probably the most famous piece of Arabic literature in the West. It includes the adventures of such well-known characters as Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad. The stories of the Arabian Nights are folk tales from Arabia, Egypt, India, Persia, and other countries. The work in its present form was written in Arabic about 1500. In the early 1700's, Jean Antoine Galland translated the Arabian Nights …showed first 75 words of 583 total…

…showed last 75 words of 583 total…as a beautiful and powerful seductress; an object to desire without possibility of love. In some regions of the world, this view/description will be derogatory and in others glorifying. In my opinion it's not easy to decide whether this kind of an approach to oriental women is commendable or slanderous. It all depends on the regional cultures and as far as cultures go, most of them will take this view in its negative stance.