Properties of the number 1001
The Tales of the Arabian Nights came to us from the Near East and the Middle East. It is a collection of Arabic tales which started from the 10th century and that was translated in French by Antoine Galland in the beginning of the 18th century. It is said that the Arab storyteller does not cease to speak during thousand and one night. The king Chahriyar had strangler his wives the day after his weddings, Scheherazade succeeds to delay the sentence by telling him tales which remain unfinished at daybreak. The king puts the execution off from day to day to know the end of the account of the day before. Scheherazade holds it during thousand and one nights, and the king renounces to the execution.
The thousand and one churches of the Bin Bir Kilise area, near the Catal Hüyük, hypothetically the oldest city of the world, where are located the numerous ruins of churches and Byzantine monasteries.
The construction of the very beautiful cathedral of Ani, in the capital of Armenia, was completed in the year 1001.
To enter in the Mevlevi order, the candidate has to do a noviciate of 1001 days in a certain monastery where he had to do the meditation, the prayer, the fast and to the practice of the dance.
In the city of Qazwin in Iran, an Arabic inscription of the 7th century reminds the custom to distribute to the poors of the province an oxs and 1001 breads per month, and every others three months every year.
The numerical value of the Hebrew word ThAM, meaning symmetry or the verbs to join and combine, gives 1001.
Last modification: October 23, 1999