Shahrāzād (English spelling) Shahrazad

…She married King Shahryar, who had become distrustful of women due to his wife's infidelity, and with her skillful storytelling, she told the king stories every night for a thousand and one nights, eventually softening his heart and making him his official wife. The source of her name, Shirāzād (meaning "Lion of Freedom") and Shahrāzād (meaning "City of Freedom"), are both Iranian names, so some say she is Shirin, the protagonist of an epic poem written by Nizami. Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite Scheherazade (1888) is also based on Tales of the Thousand and One Nights, and the ballet based on this piece (choreographed by Fokine, premiered in 1910) is also famous. …

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…妻の不義がもとで女性不信に陥ったシャハリヤール王に嫁し，毎夜巧妙な話術をもって千と一夜，物語を聞かせ，ついに王の心を柔らげて正妃として迎えられる。この名の源と思われるシーラーザードShīrāzād(〈自由の獅子〉の意)，シャフラーザードShahrāzād(〈自由の町〉の意)はいずれもイラン人の名であることから，ニザーミーの作になる叙事詩の主人公シーリーンであるとの説もある。リムスキー･コルサコフの交響組曲《シェエラザード》(1888)も《千夜一夜物語》にもとづくもので，この曲によるバレエ(フォーキン振付，1910初演)も著名。…

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