One Hundred and One Nights (book)
One Hundred and One Nights () is a book of Arab literature consisting of twenty stories, which presents many similarities to the more famous "One Thousand and One Nights".
Ali Baba
The tale was added to the story collection "One Thousand and One Nights" by one of its European translators, Antoine Galland, who called his volumes "Les Mille et Une Nuits" (1704–1717). Galland was an 18th-century French Orientalist who heard it in oral form from a Maronite story-teller, called Hanna Diyab, who came from Aleppo in modern-day Syria and told the story in Paris. In any case, the earliest known text of the story is Galland's French version. Richard F. Burton included it in the supplemental volumes (rather than the main collection of stories) of his translation (published as "The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night") and thought its origins were Greek Cypriot.