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I am searching for the original story of Aladin to write my school project on. I am not searching for adaptations, parodies, movies based on Aladin or anything like that. I am looking for the original story that was written by the original author.
Note: If the original story was through verbal storytelling, what was the first time the story was written down and where can I find it?
Aladdin is a story of Middle Eastern origin, interpolated into One Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights) by its European translators and editors, and widely known as part of that collection.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_(disambiguation)
One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: كِتَاب أَلْف لَيْلَة وَلَيْلَة kitāb ʾalf layla wa-layla) is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English language edition (1706), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment.[1]
The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, and South Asia and North Africa. The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Mesopotamian, Indian, and Egyptian folklore and literature. In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Caliphate era, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hazār Afsān (Persian: هزار افسان, lit. A Thousand Tales) which in turn relied partly on Indian elements.[2]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheherazade
