What's more, no early Arabic original has ever been found. 'Aladdin” only exists today because of the 18th-century Orientalist Antoine Galland. In the early 1700s, Galland acquired a manuscript of ...
Evidence that its first teller was a Syrian dazzled by the court of Louis XIV inspires a new translation of this magical tale Aladdin opens in the capital of “one of China’s vast and wealthy kingdoms” ...