I serve him who possesses the ring on thy finger; I and the other slaves of that ring." "Genie," said Aladdin, "I command thee in the name of this lamp, bring a roc's egg to be hung up in the middle of the dome of the hall of the palace.".

The movie became a classic, spawning a Broadway musical and a live-action remake that hits theaters this weekend. The slave obeyed, went out of the hall, and no sooner got to the palace gates than he saw the African magician, called to him, and, showing him the old lamp, said, "Give me a new lamp for this.". "My dear prince, what have you done?"

This gave him a higher opinion of Aladdin, who took such care of his mother, and made her share his wealth and honors. As soon as Aladdin had given these orders, the genie disappeared, but presently returned with the horse, the forty slaves, ten of whom carried each a purse containing ten thousand pieces of gold, and six women slaves, each carrying on her head a different dress for Aladdin's mother, wrapped up in a piece of silver tissue, and presented them all to Aladdin. By this means the African magician drew Aladdin insensibly beyond the gardens, and crossed the country till they nearly reached the mountains. "What wouldst thou have?" Over a series of one-on-one meetings, Diyab told Galland the story of Aladdin, in addition to other now-famous tales such as Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. ", "I assure you, mother," replied Aladdin, "that I am not mad, but in my right senses.

The opening sentences of the story, in both the Galland and the Burton versions, set it in "one of the cities of China". One version of the "pantomime Aladdin" is Sandy Wilson's musical Aladdin, from 1979. [17] It has been a popular subject for pantomime for over 200 years.[18]. A 1967 TV movie was based on the Prince Street Players stage musical.

Numerous film adaptations of the Nights have been made in India since at least 1905, including the two early Aladdin movies of the silent era by B.P. Aleppo was a cosmopolitan world, the place where coffee houses come from — a lively story culture.”.

The genie disappeared, and presently returned with a tray, the same number of covered dishes as before, set them down, and vanished. Let each front contain six windows, and let the lattices of these (except one, which must be left unfinished) be enriched with diamonds, rubies, and emeralds, so that they shall exceed everything of the kind ever seen in the world. “[He] went back and made good,” Horta says. He’s also not an orphaned street urchin but a lazy boy living at home with his mother. ", The magician, who really desired nothing more than to introduce himself into the palace, where it would be a much easier matter for him to execute his designs, did not long excuse himself from accepting the obliging offer which the princess made him.

There are many other differences too. When Aladdin found himself so handsomely equipped, he returned his uncle thanks, who thus addressed him: "As you are soon to be a merchant, it is proper you should frequent these shops, and be acquainted with them." After he had passed through several degrees of heat, he came out quite a different man from what he was before. His son, who was called Aladdin, was a very careless and idle fellow. At last, upon her pressing on her the duty of telling her all her thoughts, she gave to the sultaness a precise description of all that happened to her during the night; on which the sultaness enjoined on her the necessity of silence and discretion, as no one would give credence to so strange a tale. Aladdin had conducted himself in this manner several years, when the African magician, who had for some years dismissed him from his recollection, determined to inform himself with certainty whether he perished, as he supposed, in the subterranean cave or not. However, in later versions, he is orphaned and homeless and has to find his own way to win the princess. The genie builds Aladdin and his bride a wonderful palace, far more magnificent than the sultan's. I am ready to obey thee as thy slave, and the slave of all those who have that lamp in their hands; I and the other slaves of the lamp.". In the meantime I shall disguise myself; and I beg that the private door may be opened at the first knock.". When he was old enough to learn a trade, his father took him into his own shop, and taught him how to use his needle; but all his father's endeavors to keep him to his work were vain, for no sooner was his back turned than he was gone for that day. When it became quite dark, he pulled the lamp out of his breast and rubbed it. Aladdin was so frightened that he would have run away, but the magician caught hold of him, and gave him such a box on the ear that he knocked him down.

How came that vile genie to address himself to me, and not to you, to whom he had appeared before in the cave?" “The day Diyab told the story of Aladdin to Galland, there were riots due to food shortages during the winter and spring of 1708 to 1709, and Diyab was sensitive to those people in a way that Galland is not. On these conditions I am ready to bestow the princess my daughter upon him; therefore, good woman, go and tell him so, and I will wait till you bring me his answer.

At break of day the genie appeared at the appointed hour, bringing back the bridegroom, whom, by breathing upon, he had left motionless and entranced at the door of Aladdin's chamber during the night; and, at Aladdin's command, transported the couch with the bride and bridegroom on it, by the same invisible agency, into the palace of the sultan. I foresaw that you would reproach me with folly and extravagance; but I must tell you once more that I am resolved to demand the princess of the sultan in marriage, nor do I despair of success.

The African magician stayed no longer near the palace, nor cried any more, "New lamps for old ones!"

Of course, Aladdin and the larger collection of stories known as the Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: Alf layla wa layla) are ingrained in South Asian pop-culture. After a short interval devoted to mutual explanations of all that had happened, the sultan restored Aladdin to his favor, and expressed his regret for the apparent harshness with which he had treated him.