what book is aladdin based on
Aladdin (/ÉËlÃ¦dÉªn/; Arabic: Ø¹ÙØ§Ø¡ Ø§ÙØ¯ÙÙââ, Ê»AlÄÊ¼ ad-DÄ«n, IPA: [ÊalaËÊ adËdiËn]) is a 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 knownâalthough it was not part of the original Arabic text, but was added in the 18th century by Frenchman Antoine Galland.