Shahryar

"Shahryar," which Scott hideously writes "Shier ear," is translated by the Shams, King of the world, absolute monarch and the court of Anushir wan while the Burhán-i-Káti'a renders it a King of Kings, and P.N. of a town.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

She educates Shahryar as she casts her spell, culminating in her story of a caliph who, rather than severely punishing a transgressing subject, treats him with mercy.

Weaving a web of seductive stories Peter Marks 2011

Agonized by his queen's infidelity, King Shahryar strangles her and then, each night thereafter, marries, beds and murders a dewy virgin of his realm.

Weaving a web of seductive stories Peter Marks 2011

The tales of temptation and infidelity, foolishness and revenge unspool in a way that allows us to experience Scheherezade bewitching DeSantos's Shahryar; the audience catches glimpses of Yen's Scheherezade mimicking the gestures of her characters, in tandem with the actors portraying them.

Weaving a web of seductive stories Peter Marks 2011

King Shahryar of Persia loves his newlywed wife more than all the world.

Campfire Writing: Why Stories are the Writer’s Elemental Tool | Write to Done 2009

The lesson may be one that takes Shahryar something like 1,001 nights to learn, but at least at last he gets it.

Weaving a web of seductive stories Peter Marks 2011

This is what happened to Zoreh and Azar Kabiri-niat in Shahryar, Iran, in 2007; after being flogged for “illicit relations” they were then tried again and found guilty of “committing adultery while married.”

Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

In the end, it was Shah Jahan who ascended the throne at Agra as the fifth Emperor of the Mughal dynasty, and he sent to their deaths his brother Shahryar and, for good measure, a couple of his cousins, thereby ensuring even in 1627 that, if anyone would lay claim to the throne of the mighty Mughal Empire, it would be only someone who was directly descended from him and his wife Mumtaz Mahal.

Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

And perhaps if Shahryar had been a little less of a dimwit and become sovereign after his father, I might have had a place at court.

Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

This is what happened to Zoreh and Azar Kabiri-niat in Shahryar, Iran, in 2007; after being flogged for “illicit relations” they were then tried again and found guilty of “committing adultery while married.”

Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010