Reddit reviews The Arabian Nights (New Deluxe Edition)

I was obsessed with the Arabian Nights when I was younger, and I read several versions of it . The version with illustrations by Maxfield Parrish set my imagination on fire.

Hmm, I still have the critically acclaimed translation by Mahdi / Haddawy lying unread in a box somewhere. Time to dig it up...

After I devoured those tales, I went on to read just about anything related to or inspired by the Nights. Including:

• Arabian Nights and Days by Naguib Mahfouz. The Nights as philosophical allegory.
  
  
• Chimera by John Barth. A collection of three tales - the first is Barth's fanfiction about Shahrazad and a great homage to the art of telling stories. Highly recommended once you've read the Arabian Nights.
  
  
• Jorge Luis Borges also has a great lecture about the Arabian Nights, it's in a collection of his lectures called Seven Nights.

As someone else commented, it is from the opening (and ending) of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. You can play the games, I loved all of the prince of persias (even the DOS versions). If you want to read a book then prince of persia was mostly inspired by Thousand and One Nights. Which is more or less an evolution of Hazaar Afsana. The most accurate translation (without the forged and manipulated stories) of this is by Husain Haddawy.