List of works influenced by One Thousand and One Nights

The Middle Eastern story collection One Thousand and One Nights has had a profound impact on culture around the world.
Literature.
The influence of the versions of "The Nights" on world literature is immense. Writers as diverse as Henry Fielding and Naguib Mahfouz have alluded to the work by name in their own literature. Other writers who have been influenced by the "Nights" include John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Goethe, Walter Scott, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nodier, Flaubert, Marcel Schwob, Stendhal, Dumas, Gérard de Nerval, Gobineau, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Hofmannsthal, Conan Doyle, W. B. Yeats, H. G. Wells, Cavafy, Calvino, Georges Perec, H. P. Lovecraft, Marcel Proust, A. S. Byatt, Ruydard Kipling and Angela Carter.
This work has been influential in the West since it was translated in the 18th century, first by Antoine Galland. Many imitations were written, especially in France. Various characters from this epic have themselves become cultural icons in Western culture, such as Aladdin, Sinbad and Ali Baba. Part of its popularity may have sprung from the increasing historical and geographical knowledge, so that places of which little was known and so marvels were plausible had to be set further "long ago" or farther "far away"; this is a process that continues, and finally culminate in the fantasy world having little connection, if any, to actual times and places. Several elements from Arabian mythology and Persian mythology are now common in modern fantasy, such as genies, magic carpets, magic lamps, etc. When L. Frank Baum proposed writing a modern fairy tale that banished stereotypical elements, he included the genie as well as the dwarf and the fairy as stereotypes to go.
Japanese literature.
The "Nights" also had an influence on modern Japanese literature. George Fyler Townsend's revised edition of the "Arabian Nights" was the first "European" literary work to be translated into the Japanese language during the Meiji era, by Nagamine Hideki in 1875. The Japanese translation was entitled "Arabiya Monogatari" ("Arabian Stories" or literally "Stormy Night Stories"), as part of the monogatari genre. Though the book was intriguing to Japanese readers who then had very little knowledge of Arabic culture or the Middle East in general, the "Nights" did not gain popularity in Japan until a more Japanified translation, entitled "Zensekai Ichidai Kisho" ("The Most Curious Book in the Whole World"), was produced by Inoue Tsutomu in 1888. His translation exerted a great influence on the literature of the Meiji, Taishō and Shōwa periods, with writers and poets such as Hinatsu Kōnosuke, Hakushū Kitahara and Mokutaro Kinoshita citing the work as an influence on their own works. In the early 20th century, other translations from the Lane and Burton editions were also published, including ones from the Lane edition by Kōnosuke and Morita Sōhei, as well a translation of the Andrew Lang edition by Daisui Sugitani, and translations of individual tales by Iwaya Sazanami. In "Norwegian Wood", written by Haruki Murakami in 1987, Toru refers to Reiko as a regular Scheherazade when she leaves a story about her past unfinished. Moreover, Murakami wrote a short story entitled "Scheherazade", published in "The New Yorker" in October 2014 and previously compiled in his short story collection "Men Without Women", published in April 2014.
"" is a Japanese fantasy manga written by Shinobu Ohtaka which borrows several elements from the "Nights". Each of the three protagonists, Aladdin, Alibaba and Morgiana have several traits in common with their counterparts from the original, with the same occurring with other characters like Sinbad, Cassim and Scheherazade. First released in 2009, it was adapted into an anime series in 2012.
Film, television and radio.
There have been many adaptations of "The Nights" for television, cinema and radio.
The atmosphere of "The Nights" influenced such films as Fritz Lang's 1921 "Der müde Tod", the 1924 Hollywood film "The Thief of Baghdad" starring Douglas Fairbanks, and its 1940 British remake. Several stories served as source material for "The Adventures of Prince Achmed" (1926), the oldest surviving feature-length animated film.
In the late 1930s, Fleischer Studios produced three two-reel animated "Popeye" cartoons in color for Paramount Pictures. All three cartoons, known also as the "Popeye Color Specials" (or "Features"), were adapted from "The Nights": "Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor", "Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves", and "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp".
One of Hollywood's first feature films to be based on "The Nights" was in 1942, with the movie called "Arabian Nights". It starred Maria Montez as Scheherazade, Sabu Dastagir as Ali Ben Ali and Jon Hall as Harun al-Rashid. The storyline bears virtually no resemblance to the traditional version of the book. In the film, Scheherazade is a dancer who attempts to overthrow Caliph Harun al-Rashid and marry his brother. After Scheherazade's initial coup attempt fails and she is sold into slavery, many adventures then ensue. Maria Montez and Jon Hall also starred in the 1944 film "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves".
Columbia Pictures released "A Thousand and One Nights", starring Cornel Wilde as Aladdin, in 1945.
In the 1952 Universal Pictures movie "The Golden Blade", Harun al-Rashid (Rock Hudson) uses a magical sword that makes him invincible to free Baghdad from the evil vizier Jafar and his son Hadi and win the love of the beautiful princess Khairuzan (Piper Laurie).
The 1955 RKO Pictures film "Son of Sinbad" combines the Sinbad character with Ali Baba's Forty Thieves (who in this film are all female).
The 1958 movie "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" was a Sinbad film produced by the stop-motion animation pioneer Ray Harryhausen. Harryhausen also provided the stop-motion effects for "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad" (1974) and "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger" (1977).
In 1959, Columbia Pictures released a UPA-produced animated feature starring Mr. Magoo, entitled "1001 Arabian Nights".
Osamu Tezuka worked on two (very loose) feature film adaptations, the children's film "Sinbad no Bōken" in 1962 and "Senya Ichiya Monogatari" in 1969, an adult-oriented animated feature film.
Hanna-Barbera had created Shazzan, a powerful genie that comes from a ring in 1967 and the next year premiered a segment on The Banana Splits Show called Arabian Knights, a team of heroes saving their lands from an evil emperor.
In 1982, an X-rated adaptation entitled “A Thousand And One Erotic Nights” was produced, starring Annette Haven as “Scheherezade”.
The most commercially successful movie based on "The Nights" was "Aladdin", the 1992 animated movie by the Walt Disney Company, which starred the voices of Scott Weinger and Robin Williams. The film led to several sequels and a television series of the same name. Scheherazade and her "thousand tales" are referred to in the song "Friend Like Me".
A French animated television series, "Princesse Shéhérazade", was originally broadcast from 1996 until 1999.
"The Voyages of Sinbad" has been adapted for television and film several times, most recently in the 2003 animated feature "", featuring the voices of Brad Pitt and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
A recent well-received television adaptation was the Emmy Award-winning miniseries "Arabian Nights", directed by Steve Barron and starring Mili Avital as Scheherazade and Dougray Scott as Shahryar. It was originally shown over two nights on April 30, and May 1, 2000 on ABC in the United States and BBC One in the United Kingdom.
In 2001, the "Radio Tales" series produced a trilogy of dramas adapted from the Arabian Nights, including the stories of Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sindbad.
Other versions of "The Nights" include the 1974 Italian movie "Il fiore delle mille e una notte" by Pier Paolo Pasolini and the 1990 French movie "Les 1001 nuits", in which Catherine Zeta-Jones made her debut playing Scheherazade.
There are numerous Bollywood movies inspired by the book, including "Aladdin and Sinbad". In this version the two heroes meet and share in each other's adventures; the djinn of the lamp is female, and Aladdin marries her rather than the princess. Other Indian films inspired by the book, include "Allauddinum Albhutha Vilakkum" (1979; Malayalam), "Allaudinaum Arputha Vilakkum" (1979; Tamil) and "Daya" (1998; Malayalam).
The Turkish television series "Binbir Gece" (Thousand and one nights) is a modern re-telling of the book. It is about an architect named Şehrazat (Scheherazade) who spends a night with her boss for a money to pay for her son's expensive surgery.
In 2009, the BBC Radio 7 science fiction series "Planet B" featured an episode set in a virtual world which had merged "The Nights" with a wargame.
Alif Laila is an Indian TV series based on the stories from "The Arabian Nights". It was produced by Sagar Films (Pvt. Ltd.) and aired on DD National.
In the episode "Stan of Arabia (Part II)" of "American Dad!", Roger distracts a wealthy sheik with stories from American soap operas to delay consummating their marriage.
Bugs Bunny portrayed a Scheherazade-like character in "". Bugs must entertain Sultan Yosemite Sam and his son Prince Abba-Dabba with story after story or else be subject to beheading.
In the third season episode "The Scheherazade Job" of the TNT series "Leverage", Hardison (the "Hacker") has to play the violin solo in a live performance of "Scheherazade" in order for the crew to successfully rob the story's villain. Ironically, the crew is so captivated by Hardison's playing of the solo in the fourth movement that they stop still during the robbery to listen. While discussing Scheherazade, Sophie says she was the first "grifter", being able to make the king fail to keep his murderous vow and then to make him fall for her.
The Japanese animated film "" is inspired by "Arabian Nights".
"Sherazade, the untold stories", is a CGI cartoon TV series for children started in 2017.
In season 9, episode 8 of the Cartoon Network series "Adventure Time" (Elements Part 7: Hero Heart) Ice King and Betty run into Lumpy Space Princess while riding on a magic carpet. Ice King greets her by saying "Check it out, LSP! It's a real, magic, flying carpet! I feel just like Scheherazade."
In 2018, Audible commissioned the retelling of the Scheherazade and Ali Baba stories in an eight-part radio drama penned by Marty Ross and performed by Wireless Theatre Company.
Scheherezade is portrayed by Meredith Stepien in the 2013 Starkid musical "" (a parody of Disney's 1992 animated feature, "Aladdin", with strong influences from the musical "Wicked").
"Arabbya Rajani" ("Arabian Nights") is an Indian Bengali-language drama television show. An adaptation of various tales from the collection, it aired on Colors Bangla in 2019.
Sculpture and visual arts.
In Iraq, from the time the Hashemite monarchy was overthrown (in 1969), Iraqi artists searched for a visual language that would reference their deep artistic and literary heritage. A number of sculptures by sculptor Mohammed Ghani Hikmat, now dotted around the city of Baghdad, were inspired by stories from "One Thousand and One Nights." These include statues of "Sinbad, the sailor"; "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"; "Kahramana Fountain" featuring Morgiana pouring hot oil on the thieves hidden in jars; "Shahriyar and Scheherazade;" "Flying Carpets" and the "Magic Lantern." 