At the successful conclusion of the tales, Dunyazad marries Shah Zaman, Shahryar's younger brother. Dunyazad, brought to her sister's bedchamber so that she could say farewell before Scheherazade's execution the next morning, asks her sister to tell one last story. In the story cycle, it is she who-at Scheherazade's instruction-initiates the tactic of cliffhanger storytelling to prevent her sister's execution by Shahryar. 'of noble or exalted lineage' or 'of noble appearance/origin'), Dunyazad ĭunyazad ( Persian: دنیازاد, Dunyāzād aka Dunyazade, Dunyazatde, Dinazade, or Dinarzad) is the younger sister of Queen Scheherazade. The name derives from the Persian šahr ( شهر, 'city') and -zâd ( زاد, 'child of') or from the Middle-Persian čehrāzād, wherein čehr means 'lineage' and āzād, 'noble' or 'exalted' (i.e. This forces the King to keep her alive for another day so that she could resume the tale at night. For 1,001 nights, Scheherazade tells her husband a story, stopping at dawn with a cliffhanger. She is the daughter of the kingdom's vizier and the older sister of Dunyazad.Īgainst her father's wishes, she marries King Shahryar, who has vowed that he will execute a new bride every morning. 'child of the city') is the legendary Persian queen who is the storyteller and narrator of The Nights. Scheherazade or Shahrazad ( Persian: شهرزاد, Šahrzād, or شهرزاد, Šahrāzād, lit. Scheherazade in the palace of her husband, Shahryar
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