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Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp

by John Payne

In 1888 Hermann Zotenberg published an Arabic text of Aladdin from a manuscript in the Bibliothèque nationale, and John Payne translated it the next year as Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp. The manuscript had been copied in Paris by a Syrian priest, Dionysios Chavis, and scholars now think it was made after Galland’s French rather than before it. The lamp is genuine; it is the pedigree that is the mystery.

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Reading time

About 4 hr 25 min

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Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #5100. In the public domain in the United States.