Compiled by Abū Bakr b. Khusrau al-Ustād and dedicated to the Eldigüzid atabeg of Azerbaijan Nuṣrat al-Dīn Abū Bakr (r. 1191–1210), the recently published Mūnis-nāma contains the earliest known Persian version of a collection of tales, generically known as Jāmiʿ al-ḥikāyāt, hitherto assumed to have been written down in the 17th-19th centuries. Many of the Munis-nāma tales correspond to the Ottoman Turkish tales of Faraj baʿd al-shidda, dating from the 14th-15th centuries, a French adaptation of some of which was produced in the early 18th century as Les Mille et un jours. When discussing the supremacy of poetry over prose in his introduction, the compiler explicitly mentions that the reason he wrote his work in prose is that his targeted audiences were the female members of the royal court and that women understand prose better than poetry. Since women played an important role in the education and upbringing of future rulers and were influential at royal courts, this papers discusses how the Munis-nāma might have functioned as a book of ethico-political advice for the female members of the royal court.