Aladdin is still wearing a magic ring the sorcerer has lent him. After the sorcerer attempts to double-cross him, Aladdin finds himself trapped in the cave. The sorcerer's real motive is to persuade young Aladdin to retrieve a wonderful oil lamp (chirag) from a booby-trapped magic cave. He is recruited by a sorcerer from the Maghreb, who passes himself off as the brother of Aladdin's late father, Mustapha the tailor, convincing Aladdin and his mother of his good will by pretending to set up the lad as a wealthy merchant. Īladdin is an impoverished young ne'er-do-well, dwelling in "one of the cities of China". The following is a précis of the Burton translation of 1885. The story is often retold with variations. Plot summary The Sorcerer traps Aladdin in the magic cave. Bottigheimer and Paulo Lemos Horta have argued that Hanna Diyab should be understood as the original author of some of the stories he supplied, and even that several of Diyab's stories (including Aladdin) were partly inspired by Diyab's own life, as there are parallels with his autobiography. As part of his work on the first critical edition of the Nights, Iraq's Muhsin Mahdi has shown that both these manuscripts are "back-translations" of Galland's text into Arabic. It was purchased by the Bibliothèque Nationale at the end of the nineteenth century. The other is supposed to be a copy Mikhail Sabbagh made of a manuscript written in Baghdad in 1703. One was written by a Syrian Christian priest living in Paris, named Dionysios Shawish, alias Dom Denis Chavis. Payne also records the discovery in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris of two Arabic manuscripts containing Aladdin (with two more of the "interpolated" tales). It was included in his volumes ix and x of the Nights, published in 1710, without any mention or published acknowledgment of Hanna's contribution. Galland's diary further reports that his transcription of "Aladdin" for publication occurred in the winter of 1709–10. According to Galland's diary, he met with Hanna, who had travelled from Aleppo to Paris with celebrated French traveller Paul Lucas, on March 25, 1709. John Payne quotes passages from Galland's unpublished diary: recording Galland's encounter with a Maronite storyteller from Aleppo, Hanna Diyab. The story follows the magician getting hold of the lamp and Aladdin?s adventures from then on till he gets the lamp back and manages to vanquish evil.Known along with Ali Baba as one of the "orphan tales", the story was not part of the original Nights collection and has no authentic Arabic textual source, but was incorporated into the book Les mille et une nuits by its French translator, Antoine Galland. The genie helps Aladdin get out of the cave, marry the princess, free Badar?s father, have him reinstated as the Sultan and build a palace for him. Aladdin manages to rub the lamp and a genie appears. When Aladin refuses to hand over the lamp before coming out, Hikmat slams the entrance shut leaving Aladdin trapped. He takes Aladdin to the cave and sends him down to get the lamp. Masood Beg's son, Nazim has Aladdin whipped for a minor fracas and the magician tends to him. Badar's father has been imprisoned and a look-alike substituted in his place by the evil minister Masood Beg. The magician finds Aladdin (Mahipal) who is in love with Princess Badar (Meena Kumari). He is asked to get the magic lamp from a cave where he will need to send someone who is honest and has twenty-one moles in the shape of a lamp on his hand. Tripathi) tells a genie-like figure that he wants to rule the world. Synopsis: The film starts in a magician?s den in a cave where the magician, Hikmat (S.
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