Ali Baba
Ali Baba (Arabic: علي بابا, ʿAli Bāba) is a fictional character, who is described in the adventure tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. It is believed by some critics that this story was added to One Thousand and One Nights by one of its European translators, Antoine Galland, who is an 18th-century French orientalist who may have heard it in oral form from a Middle Eastern story-teller from Aleppo. However, another writer and scholar Sir Richard Francis Burton said it was a part of the original One Thousand and One Nights. Most Arab and Persian (Irani) scholars seem to also agree with Burton.[1]
Ali Baba Media
Poster for 40 Thieves at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 1886
A depiction of the Forty Thieves.
A member of the Forty Thieves tries to discover the location of the house of Ali Baba.
A member of the Forty Thieves marks the door of Ali Baba
Morgiana pours boiling hot oil into the jars containing the infamous Forty Thieves.
References
- ↑ See Al-Jubari, Dr AH, 'The Arabian Nights:Sources, Origins' Cairo, 1958; Noori Hamad, A. Al-Khalifa, 'Some notes on Burton's Arabian Nights', London, 1974; and Alizadeh, SHA 'The Arabian Nights, a Series of Oriental Tales of Diverse Backgrounds, analysis' (Persian text monograph), Teheran, 1991
