Ali Baba is a human protagonist in Arabian folklore, from Arab world (circulation). Ali Baba is the human protagonist of the folk tale commonly known in English as "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," a narrative added to the One Thousand and One Nights corpus in the 18th century by French translator Antoine Galland, who recorded it from the Syrian storyteller Hanna Diyab. In the tale he discovers a hidden treasure chamber opened by a magical phrase but is presented as an ordinary man rather than a supernatural being in the supplied sources.
According to the supplied documentary sources, the tale known as "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" entered the One Thousand and One Nights corpus in the 18th century when Antoine Galland published it after hearing the story from the Syrian storyteller Hanna Diyab. The narrative was thus incorporated into the Nights as a later addition to the medieval collection and subsequently spread through translation and adaptation across Europe and beyond.
The provided sources do not offer a canonical or detailed physical description of Ali Baba. In the materials supplied he is treated as a human protagonist of the tale without consistent, authoritative illustration or physiognomic description; later retellings and adaptations portray him variously, but such portrayals are not documented in the present sources.
The supplied documents do not ascribe inherent supernatural powers to Ali Baba. Within the story he becomes the beneficiary of an external magical plot device — a password that opens a thieves' treasure chamber (commonly cited in English as "Open, Sesame") — but the sources characterize him as an ordinary man who discovers and uses that device rather than as someone possessing innate magical abilities.
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- [2]Wikidata: Ali Baba. Wikidata entry for Ali Baba (Q16165327).other
- [3]Ali-Baba y los cuarenta ladrones (archive record). Archive record for a Spanish edition titled "Ali-Baba y los cuarenta ladrones" (translation of: Ali-Baba and the forty thieves).literary
- [4]CIA Reading Room archival item referencing Ali-Baba materials. Archival bibliographic item referencing materials related to Ali-Baba (bibliographic context).other