The recent clamor around Disney’s forthcoming remake of Aladdin (1992) was a vivid reminder that an entire generation of people today grew up enchanted by the film. Part two, entitled “Who wrote Aladdin? The Forgotten Syrian Storyteller,” can be found here. This article is the first of a two-part series about Aladdin. He specializes in medieval Islamic social and cultural history, and has a secondary interest in the Thousand and One Nights, stories from which he first read in Bengali translation. Razzaque, a PhD candidate in History & Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. ![]() ![]() The following is a guest post by Arafat A.
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