Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp | |
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![]() Aladdin finds the wonderful lamp inside the cave. A c. 1898 illustration by Rene Bull. | |
Folk tale | |
Name | Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp |
Aarne–Thompson grouping | ATU 561 (Aladdin) |
Region | Middle East |
Aladdin (/əˈlædɪn/ ə-LAD-in; Arabic: علاء الدين, romanized: ʻAlāʼu d-Dīn/ʻAlāʼ ad-Dīn, IPA: [ʕalaːʔ adˈdiːn], ATU 561, 'Aladdin') is a Middle-Eastern folk tale. It is one of the best-known tales associated with One Thousand and One Nights (or, The Arabian Nights), despite not being part of the original text; it was added by the Frenchman Antoine Galland, based on a folk tale that he heard from the Syrian storyteller Hanna Diyab.[1]