What is Aladdin?
<!-- {{otheruses|the original story|the Disney version|Aladdin (Disney character)}} --> [[File:Aladdin in the Magic Garden - Project Gutenberg eText 14221.jpg|thumb|Aladdin with the oil lamp]] '''Aladdin''' is a fictional person from the story ''Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp'', which is part of the ''[[The Book of One Thousand and One Nights|Book of One Thousand and One Nights]]''. ==Story== The young man Aladdin is told by a [[sorcerer]] (magician), who is pretending to be his uncle, to get him an [[oil lamp]] from a cave. Aladdin gets the lamp, but the sorcerer tries to trick him. So, Aladdin keeps the lamp for himself. Aladdin learns that inside the lamp there is a [[Genie|djinn]]. The djinn can fulfill every wish of the lamp's owner. With the djinn's help, Aladdin becomes rich and powerful and marries a [[princess]]. The sorcerer returns and tricks Aladdin's wife into giving him the magic lamp. Aladdin finds out that in a [[ring]] he has, there is another djinn. This djinn helps Aladdin defeat the sorcerer, get back the magic lamp, and save his wife. ==Adaptions (new versions of the story)== There have been different versions of the story: * [[Nicolas Isouard]] wrote an [[opera]] from it in [[1822]]. * There is a [[ballet]] version by [[Michael François Hoguet]]. That version was done in [[1854]]. [[Wenzel Gährich]] contributed the music to the ballet version. * There is a film ''[[The Thief of Bagdad (1940 film)|The Thief of Bagdad]]''. It was shot in 1940. It was one of the first films to use [[Technicolor]]. * There is a [[Bollywood]] version ''Aladdin and [[Sinbad]]''. In it, both characters meet and participate in the adventures of each other. The djinn is female. In the end Aladdin marries her (rather than the princess). * [[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney]] also made a version of [[Aladdin (Disney character)|Aladdin]], who appeared in several adaptions. In the [[Aladdin (1992 film)|Disney film ''Aladdin'']], he is a smart young [[thief]] in the fictional city of [[Agrabah]]. He meets and falls in