Aladdin (Legendary character)

LC control no.	no2014107609
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Aladdin (Legendary character) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Aladin (Legendary character) علاء الدين (Legendary character) ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn (Legendary character) Aladino (Legendary character) 알라딘 (Legendary character) Alladin (Legendary character) אלאדין (Legendary character) アラジン (Legendary character) Arajin (Legendary character) Aladyn (Legendary character) Aladim (Legendary character) Аладдин (Legendary character) Ала ад-Дин (Legendary character) Ala ad-Din (Legendary character) Аладин (Legendary character) Alaaddin (Legendary character) 阿拉丁 (Legendary character) Alading (Legendary character)
Associated country	China
Special note	Non-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found in	Hulme Beaman, S. G. Aladdin, 1924. Aladdin and the wonderful lamp, 1935. O'Keeffe, J. The recitatives : airs, choruses, &c. in Aladin, or, The wonderful lamp, 1788. Wikipedia, August 13, 2014 (Aladdin (Arabic: علاء الدين‎ = ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn) is an Middle Eastern folk tale. It is one of the tales in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ("The Arabian Nights"), and one of the best known; Aladdin is an impoverished young ne'er-do-well in a Chinese town. 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 goodwill by apparently making arrangements to set up the lad as a wealthy merchant; Although Aladdin is a Middle Eastern tale, the story is set in China, and Aladdin is explicitly Chinese) Spanish page (Aladino) Korean page (알라딘 = Alladin) Hebrew page (אלאדין = Aladin) Japanese page (アラジン = Arajin) Polish page (Aladyn) Portuguese page (Aladim) Russian page (Аладдин = Aladdin; Ала ад-Дин = Ala ad-Din) Serbian page (Аладин = Aladin) Turkish page (Alaaddin) Chinese page (阿拉丁 = Alading)
Invalid LCCN	no2014107754 sh2002008986