Scheherazade is the legendary Persian queen and the story teller of One Thousand and One Nights.  One Thousand and One Nights is usually placed in the genre of Arabic epic literature.  Usually they are a collection of short stories strung together into a long tale. 

Scheherazade, it is said, perused books, legends, and stories of by gone Persian Kings.  Indeed, it was said she collected thousands of stories, read the works of poets, studied philosophy and the sciences and arts.  She was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred. 

The famed tale goes that the Sultan Schariar, convinced of the faithlessness of all women, vowed to put each of his wives to death after the first night of marriage.  But, Scheherazade, volunteered to spend one night with the Sultan.  As Scheherazade told her first tale the Sultan lay awake and listened with awe.  The night wiled away, and Scheherazade stopped in the middle of the story as day dawned.  The Sultan, anticipating the end of the story spared Scheherazade’s life in order for her to finish the story on the second night.  Of course, Scheherazade’s stories never reached a recognizable end for 1001 nights at which the Sultan had fallen in love with the princess and so spared her life and made her his Queen.

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