Aladdin (/ə ˈ l æ d ɪ n / ə-LAD -in; Arabic: علاء الدين , ʻAlāʼ ud-Dīn/ ʻAlāʼ ad-Dīn, IPA: , ATU 561, ‘Aladdin') is a folk tale most probably of Middle-Eastern origin. Despite not being part of the original Arabic text of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights), it is one of the best-known tales associated with that collection. It was actually added by the Frenchman Antoine Galland, based in a folk tale that the Syrian storyteller Hanna Diyab told him.
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British photographer, illustrator and comics artist
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Description: Design for a theatre poster advertising a production of the pantomime Aladdin. Date: 1886 Our Catalogue Reference: COPY 1/76 f.422 This image is from the collections of The National Archives. Feel free to share it within the spirit of the Commons. For high quality reproductions of any item from our collection please contact our image library.
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British painter, illustrator and comics artist