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Middle Eastern folk tale; one of the best-known tales associated with The Book of One Thousand and One Nights , despite not being part of the original text
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. Wikipedia