Aladdin and Ali Baba are French additions, not from the original Arabic manuscripts

Evidence

The tale of Aladdin is one of the most famous stories in world literature — though it does not appear in the oldest Arabic manuscripts and was added by the French translator Antoine Galland in the early 1700s. Burton, Lang, and Townsend all preserve it in English. — , A Year of World Stories, 1624

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what else in the ‘canonical’ Nights is a later European addition, and what does that do to the framing of the collection as Arabic?
• XREF: Connects to [1659] noting Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves is likewise among the famous additions, and [2129] that Maaruf was added late — distinguishing layers of the corpus’s history.