TIL: Aladdin was Chinese (the character, not the tale).
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TIL: Aladdin was Chinese (the character, not the tale). He was from "one of the cities of Ancient China" before being recruited by the wizard from Maghreb to retrieve the ring and the lamp.
Also TIL that the two most famous stories in the 1001 Nights, Aladdin and Ali Baba, weren't actually in the 1001 Nights, but were added to the French version by Antoine Galland, who stole them from a Syrian storyteller in the 1700s, Ḥannā Diyāb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_DiyabThought they are in the style of folktales, it's likely that both are original fiction by Diyāb, who went uncredited for centuries.
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