Its farsi or possibly turkish actually come to think of it becasue most of the 1001 arbian nights was built from preexsisting folk tales and more then a few of then are persian but turkey was the (what do you call it of the empire, or was this before the invasion of Costanitople and written in Bagdad?
Anyway
Starr when the stories are told in arabic the name is pronounce shu-uh-rah Zad
(only a proper english Z not and american Zee)
:D
