If the 1001 Nights (or the Arabian Nights, to a lot of folks) were in any way representative of the true nature of living in Islamic society and/or being a Muslim, I'd be on my way to Mecca right now.

To be fair, any good fiction has that effect on someone. "If (insert idea here) was as cool as it is in (insert title of book here), "I'd (insert activity/belief/whatever is a widely-recognized feature of an idea found in particular book here)." And that is precisely why literature is sublime.