One Thousand and One Days: Magical Tales from a Special School
She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred. Against her father's wishes, Scheherazade volunteered to spend one night with the king. The king lay awake and listened with awe as Scheherazade told her first story.
The night passed by and Scheherazade stopped in the middle. The king asked her to finish, but Scheherazade said there was no time, as dawn was breaking. So, the king spared her life for one day to finish the story the next night. The following night, Scheherazade finished the story and then began a second, even more exciting tale, which she again stopped halfway through at dawn.
Again, the king spared her life for one more day so she could finish the second story. And so the king kept Scheherazade alive day by day, as he eagerly anticipated the finishing of the previous night's story. At the end of 1, nights, and 1, stories, Scheherazade told the king that she had no more tales to tell him. During these 1, nights, the king had fallen in love with Scheherazade. He spared her life, and made her his queen. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Scheherazade disambiguation. Scheherazade , painted in the 19th century by Sophie Anderson.
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Encyclopaedia of Islam 2nd ed. Uses editors parameter link. Aladdin still has the magic ring and is able to summon the lesser genie. The genie of the ring cannot directly undo any of the magic of the genie of the lamp, but he is able to transport Aladdin to the Maghreb where, with the help of the "woman's wiles" of the princess he recovers the lamp and slays the sorcerer, returning the palace to its proper place. The sorcerer's more powerful and evil brother plots to destroy Aladdin for killing his brother by disguising himself as an old woman known for her healing powers.
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Badroulbadour falls for his disguise and commands the "woman" to stay in her palace in case of any illnesses. Aladdin is warned of this danger by the genie of the lamp and slays the imposter.
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Everyone lives happily ever after, Aladdin eventually succeeding to his father-in-law's throne. Known along with Ali Baba as one of the "orphan tales", the story was not part of the original Nights collection and has no authentic Arabic source, but was incorporated into the book Les mille et une nuits by its French translator, Antoine Galland. John Payne quotes passages from Galland's unpublished diary: According to Galland's diary for March 25, , he met the man he called "Hanna", who had travelled from Aleppo to Paris with Paul Lucas , a celebrated French traveller.
Galland's diary reports that his translation of "Aladdin" was made in the winter of — It was included in his volumes ix and x of the Nights , published in The other is supposed to be a copy Mikhail Sabbagh made of a manuscript written in Baghdad in As part of his work on the first critical edition of the Nights , Muhsin Mahdi has shown [5] that both these manuscripts are forgeries—"back-translations" of Galland's text into Arabic.
The opening sentences of the story, in both the Galland and the Burton versions, set it in China and imply, at least, that Aladdin is Chinese. For instance, the Sultan is referred to as such rather than being called the "Emperor", as in some re-tellings, and the people in the story are Muslims: A Jewish merchant buys Aladdin's wares and incidentally cheats him , but there is no mention of Buddhists or Confucians or other distinctively Han Chinese people. China's ethnic makeup has long included Muslim groups, including large populations of the Hui people whose origins go back to Silk Road travellers.
In addition, large communities of Muslim Chinese have been known since the Tang Dynasty , as well as Jewish communities. Some have even suggested that the intended setting may be Turkestan encompassing Central Asia and the modern Chinese province of Xinjiang.
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For all this, speculation about a "real" Chinese setting depends on a knowledge of China that the teller of a folk tale as opposed to a geographic expert might well not possess. Adaptations vary in their faithfulness to the original story.
In particular, difficulties with the "Chinese" setting are sometimes resolved by giving the story a more typical Arabian Nights background. The traditional Aladdin pantomime is the source of the well-known pantomime character Widow Twankey Aladdin's mother. In pantomime versions, changes in the setting and story are often made to fit it better into "China" albeit a China situated in the East End of London rather than Medieval Baghdad , and elements of other Arabian Nights tales in particular Ali Baba are often introduced into the plot.
One version of the "pantomime Aladdin" is Sandy Wilson 's musical Aladdin , from Since the early s Aladdin pantomimes have tended to be influenced by the Disney animation.
Disney Theatricals itself produced a Broadway-style musical in Seattle in , and another musical premiered in Toronto in and then opened on Broadway in The Sorcerer tricks a handmaiden and offers "new lamps for old lamps". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the original Middle Eastern folk tale.