^^ Tweet says just thousand and one nights. Aladdin wasn't originally part of that, though author/people in general might not know. I mean, there is a lamp though the carpet doesn't fly.
Aladdin was added into the medieval middle-eastern collection by a western traveler based on a folktale from 1700's.
Fun fact: Aladdin was a Chinese muslim in the original tales, imagine if Disney could have done that back then.
random
Mar 12, 2022 12:02PM
^By the guy who first translated the corpus in the early 1700s actually - he got Aladdin and Ali Baba from a Syrian Christian storyteller who visted Paris. The history of the whole compilation is... kind of a story in itself and it's not like it was particularly internally consistent anyway - witness for example the framing story of King Shahryar and Schererazade being explicitly set during the pre-Islamic Sassanian dynasty yet figures like the 5th Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid (from over a century after the Muslim conquest thereof) merrily make repeat appearances anyway...
In other words people who made a living spinning yarns didn't sweat the small stuff too much. No surprises there. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Altair
Mar 12, 2022 11:16PM
They put on Aladdin in the mobile game and these are their outfits from the event, right?
B-to480 Mar 11, 2022 10:20PM
"I can show you the Yuri-world"♫
Missigno Mar 12, 2022 2:15AM
"Shining, shimmering, splendid"
livingice Mar 12, 2022 5:43AM
*clutches heart in kawaii
Prakorimas Mar 12, 2022 5:54AM
Is this supposed to be an Aladdin ref?
[deleted] Mar 12, 2022 10:32AM
They look so in love
Porrima Mar 12, 2022 11:33AM
^^ Tweet says just thousand and one nights. Aladdin wasn't originally part of that, though author/people in general might not know. I mean, there is a lamp though the carpet doesn't fly.
Aladdin was added into the medieval middle-eastern collection by a western traveler based on a folktale from 1700's.
Fun fact: Aladdin was a Chinese muslim in the original tales, imagine if Disney could have done that back then.
random Mar 12, 2022 12:02PM
^By the guy who first translated the corpus in the early 1700s actually - he got Aladdin and Ali Baba from a Syrian Christian storyteller who visted Paris. The history of the whole compilation is... kind of a story in itself and it's not like it was particularly internally consistent anyway - witness for example the framing story of King Shahryar and Schererazade being explicitly set during the pre-Islamic Sassanian dynasty yet figures like the 5th Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid (from over a century after the Muslim conquest thereof) merrily make repeat appearances anyway...
In other words people who made a living spinning yarns didn't sweat the small stuff too much. No surprises there. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
last edited at Mar 12, 2022 12:03PM
Altair Mar 12, 2022 11:16PM
They put on Aladdin in the mobile game and these are their outfits from the event, right?
SushiKnight Mar 13, 2022 2:25PM
yeah, this is from the mobile game
juanelric Mar 13, 2022 10:45PM
^Gay
SushiKnight Mar 14, 2022 2:33PM
^https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YaG5SAw1n0c
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