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One Thousand and One Nights has no single author. It is a vast, anonymous compendium that accumulated over centuries, drawing from Persian, Indian, Arabic, and Egyptian oral traditions. The earliest known fragment dates to the ninth century, and the collection continued to grow and transform through the medieval period, with major stories like Aladdin and Ali Baba added as late as the eighteenth century by the French translator Antoine Galland. This author hub collects 3 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by One Thousand and One Nights.