Arabian Nights

Arabian Nights (proper title, "The Book of One Thousand and One Nights" was a collection of short stories that had been compiled from various stories that had been told on Earth for thousands of years. The stories are mainly set in an area surrounding the Persian Gulf in what was once known as Arabia.

When James T. Kirk was a child his mother, Winona Kirk, would read him all of the stories from Arabian Nights. Upon beaming down to the city of Heir'at on Heir'tzan in 2251, Kirk commented that the city was like something out of those stories. (TOS novel: My Brother's Keeper).