Arabia
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Related: arabesque - Arabian Nights - Lawrence of Arabia - Orientalism - Africa
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Arabic literature
The The Book of One Thousand and One Nights were "translated" into French — and quite possibly made up from very thin or non-existent sources as no earlier Arabic manuscripts of Aladdin and Ali Baba are known to exist — by Antoine Galland from 1704 to 1717.
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