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Aladdin, protagonist of a tale named ‘Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp’, which is included in most standard editions of The Arabian Nights (also known as The Thousand and One Nights). The tale takes place in the mountains of China where the boy Aladdin lives with his poor widowed mother. Aladdin is sought out by a Moroccan sorcerer, for whom he is to recover an oil lamp from a subterranean treasure grove. When he refuses to deliver the lamp while still inside the cave, the evil sorcerer deserts him. With the aid of a magic ring, Aladdin is rescued. By chance he discovers that the lamp commands a powerful demon, becomes rich, and eventually marries the princess. As the sorcerer learns about Aladdin's luck, he approaches the princess in disguise, tricks her into giving him the lamp, and has the demon kidnap her. Aladdin manages to find the sorcerer's hiding place, kills him, and recovers his wife. The tale did not form an integral part of The Arabian Nights prior to their Western reception. First published in 1712, the tale originates from Antoine Galland's autobiographically influenced reworking of an alleged oral performance in 1709 by the Christian Syrian narrator Hanna Diyab, who also contributed the tale of ‘Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves’ to Galland's Arabian Nights. Arabic manuscripts discovered later proved to be forgeries. Soon after its original publication, the tale became extremely popular in chapbooks, literary adaptations, children's literature, stage performances (above all, British Christmas pantomime), and movies. In 1992 it was further popularized by a Disney animated film (and a number of sequels), which modified Aladdin into a cunning trickster character. By the end of the 20th century, it has come to represent the standard Western notion of the classical oriental fairy tale. Indeed, the image of the omnipotent demon hidden inside a humble lamp has become proverbial in everyday language, literature, politics, science, and commerce...