The impressionable of Naguib Mahfouz from Thousand and One Nights

Thousand and One Nights as the most famous collection of fairytales, with peculiarity of being multi-cultural, has often been the center of attraction of great eastern and western writers. Here, Naguib Mahfouz, the winner of 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature, has based one of his famous works on "Thousand and One Nights" and compiled in similar fashion hence; this research has comparatively analyzed the two works in explaining similarities and differences from their elemental and structural aspects as well as thematic and contextual domains of the two books. A complete structural study of the two works and comparison of anecdotes and personalities that Mahfouz derived from the Thousand and One Nights indicate that in this work in order to safeguard the actual framework of anecdotes, characters, heroes and anecdotal elements of main book, Mahfouz could successfully narrate them in differet time epoch. In this work Mahfouz could narrate the anecdotes of Thousand and One Nights with supreme skill in different time and wherever there was technical problem in the actual classic work, in the work Mahfouz could write in a way that those problems were elevated.