On "1001 Nights"
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The Story of Aladdin and Ali Baba
The stories were made popular in the West by the French translator Antoine Galant, who got a hold of this original manuscript in the 1690s. Not only were these two stories not in the original Arabic manuscript, they weren't in any Arabic manuscript. For about 300 years, it seemed like they came from Galant himself. But I went to Abu Dhabi because I thought this could not be the case.
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