Finding Aladdin: The Hidden History of a Syrian Storyteller

Finding Aladdin is a captivating work of literary deduction that unearths the true story of the young man who created Aladdin, a tale almost as strange as the fantastical stories themselves.

When The Arabian Nights were first translated into European languages, they were a sensation. Many were ancient tales drawn from Arabic folklore, but the most famous of all, Aladdin, was completely new.

Centuries later, a researcher working in the Vatican Library finds an anonymous Arabic manuscript that ...