The Arabic "Alexander romance" also had an influence on a wider range of Arabic literature. It has been noted that some features of the Arabic Alexander legends found their way into "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor", a medieval story-cycle of Arabic origin. Sinbad, the hero of the epic, is a fictional sailor from Basrah, living during the Abbasid Caliphate. During his voyages throughout the seas east of Africa and south of Asia, he has fantastic adventures going to magical places, meeting monsters, and encountering supernatural phenomena. As a separate example of this influence on Arabic literature, the legend of Alexander's search for the Water of Life is found in "One Thousand and One Nights", a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folktales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age.