It is named after Tawaddud, a fictional character in the One Thousand and One Nights.
Written by comedy writer Richard Curtis, this comic fantasy takes its inspiration from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights and follows Alan Cumming as art dealer Bernard Bottle who is not having a good day.
Five grains of musk are included with Cubeb (section Uses, subsection Medicinal) in an aphrodisiac recipe in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights popularly known in English as the Arabian Nights
The formation is most notable for its unusual title, referring to the medieval Persian book of 1001 Nights, a collection of tales and fables.
Phoenix Nights | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | Boogie Nights | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Thousand Islands | Thousand Foot Krutch | The Hero with a Thousand Faces | The Ghost of a Thousand | One Thousand and One Nights | Neverwinter Nights 2 | Nights in White Satin | Eight Crazy Nights | A Thousand Years of Good Prayers | 40 Days and 40 Nights | Two Thousand Maniacs! | Two Thousand Acres of Sky | Thousand Pieces of Gold (film) | Thousand Oaks, California | Nights in Black Leather | Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide | Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark | Anne of the Thousand Days | Thousand Islands Bridge | Thousand Island dressing | Thousand Character Classic | The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse | Ten Thousand Lightyears | Talladega Nights | Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights | Halloween Horror Nights |
Thereby, Khuda-Yana's world is a well cared mixture, a pastiche, a collage of genders and styles – pirates, One Thousand and One Nights, Greek mythology, Jules Verne's steampunk from sci-fi, and fantasy to a few anachronisms for comedy sake – i.e. making Khuda talking through a modern cell-phone or wearing a modern cheerleader outfit for a short gag.
Countries and continents explored in the Games are Spielburg (Game 1; German folklore), Shapeir (Game 2; Arabia of One Thousand and One Nights), Tarna (Game 3; African mythology, esp. Egypt), Mordavia (Game 4; Slavic mythology) and Silmaria (Game 5; Greek mythology).
He has played many roles and leading roles in theater; Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, One Thousand and One Nights, The Government Inspector, and many other comedic roles.