The Arabian Nights, aka The Thousand and One Nights, is an Arabic story collection from the Middle Ages, first translated into a European language in the 18th century.
It contains some classic tales that have become as essential to Western culture as Ulysses, the Trojan War, and Daniel in the Lion's Den: Aladdin's Lamp, Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves; the Voyages of Sinbad?
So how about some paintings of a nude Aladdin or a muscular Sinbad?
I looked. I didn't find much.
An Arabian Nights Fantasy by contemporary artist Nona Hytinnen
Marc Chagall, an illustration from a 1948 Arabian Nights book. That's the story of "Abdullah the Fisherman," who catches a male mermaid.
Maxfield Parrish, the great 19th century illustrator, gives us a little beefcake with this dozing giant.
And the Classics Illustrated comic book version has a genie in a loincloth, although a bit too feminine for my tastes.
And that's it, unless ycu count fan pics of Disney's Aladdin (like this one from Nippy13 on deviantart.com).
I don't know why The Arabian Nights seems to have inspired very few male nudes.
Oh, well, back to real-life Arab men.