Likely, the most famous of these One-Thousand and One Nights, or Arabian Nights, is the myth of Aladdin and his magical lamp. Sir Richard Burton translated them from the Arabic in 1885, and as a result, this collection of legends has become widely known in the west. The Story of Sinbad and the Sea and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves are other titles that might be widely recognized. The rest of the myths had been accumulated from ancient Persia and local storytellers. They were bound together in written form by al-Jahshiyari.
These are also parables, and each myth exists to teach a moral lesson about greed, envy or pride. The story is told with a narration frame of Sharazad, who does not want to be put to death by the King she is being made to marry. The king would get a new bride-to-be every night and put to death the previous day's bride. Sharazad was clever and told the King a story each night to entrap him into keeping her alive. The One-Thousand and One Tales were those stories.
The Qur'an, also known as the Islamic holy book, contains educational philosophy and religious enlightenment through its myths and parables. Islamic faith holds that the teachings were revealed to the prophet Mohammad over a period of roughly 23 years. It was handed down orally through mythological storytelling and put into written form after the Prophet Mohammed's death. It contains teachings on how to live a good, chaste and rewarding life from the perspective of those of the Muslim faith. It is credited for teaching generations of people traditional understandings of the Muslim way of life.
The Book of Idols is an Arabian text that describes gods and goddesses of the pre-Islamic faith. It can be read as a whole or in parts like Arabian Nights or the Qur'an. Each myth inside details a particular god or goddess and his or her belief system. There are 27 different gods or goddesses (or in some case idols) discussed in all.