Ali Baba

Ali Baba (died 860s) was a famous merchant who lived in Baghdad during the 9th century. He owned an estate with his daughter Murjana in the Karkh district.
==Biography==
During the 860s, Ali Baba came to deal with the criminal group known as the Forty Thieves, who were led by their "king" Kasim and had a hideout in the wilderness south of the city.Assassin's Creed: Mirage – The Forty Thieves – A Dance with Thieves An exaggerated version of his encounter with the thieves and their rumored treasure was later written in a collection of Persian and Middle Eastern stories titled One Thousand and One Nights, and it soon became one of the book's most infamous stories.Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Database: The One Thousand and One Nights
==Behind the scenes==
Ali Baba is a figure from Arabic folklore who was first mentioned in the 2023 video game Assassin's Creed: Mirage before appearing in its downloadable expansion The Forty Thieves. In the original tale, Ali is a woodcutter and he survives the ordeal with the thieves, though they kill his merchant brother Cassim who gets trapped in the thieves' magical cave of riches. Murjana is not his daughter but becomes his daughter-in-law after foiling the thieves' multiple attempts to kill him.
Datamined games files contained text for two notes that do not appear in the expansion. The first is a paper in which Ali first gave thanks to Allah for blessing his devotion to Islam with financial security by way of the Forty Thieves' treasure, despite having lost his unnamed wife, then praised his daughter as someone to continue his legacy:
The second is a page initially titled "Ali Baba's Diary" that mentioned Murjana's wanderlust, Ali's need to access the "cave of wonders" to fund her wishes, and his fear about working with the Forty Thieves due to their brutal ways. By the time of the expansion's release, the note was modified with the longer name of "A Page from Ali Baba's Journal" while removing the aforementioned details. The below text is the original note with the underlined words indicating what was removed.
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed: Mirage 
**The Forty Thieves 
==References==
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