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across major urban centres of the Islamic world, particularly Baghdad, Damascus, and Cairo. During this period, Scheherazade's narrative voice was shaped by multiple literary and cultural traditions, including Persian court literature, Arabic adab, Hellenistic romance motifs transmitted through Greek sources, and narrative material from Egyptian, North African, and broader Near Eastern storytelling cultures. While no Andalusi manuscript of the Nights survives, thematic and structural affinities suggest indirect influence from the western Islamic

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