Your point still stands, but this is probably a bad example. Many of the stories from A Thousand and One Nights were written by European authors to keep up the sales when they ran out of the originals. Many of the ones we know today were not written outside of europe.
Yes because A Thousand and One Nights and the works of the Arab alchemists that were critical to the foundation of modern chemistry is all fake. /s
Your point still stands, but this is probably a bad example. Many of the stories from A Thousand and One Nights were written by European authors to keep up the sales when they ran out of the originals. Many of the ones we know today were not written outside of europe.
Or like half the anti-colonial literature in 19th and 20th centuries… /s