The Sisters who Envied Their Cadette is a fairy tale collected by French orientalist Antoine Galland and published in his translation of The Arabian Nights, a compilation of Arabic and Persian fairy tales.
Princess Parizade carries a keg of the Golden Water. Gouache painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1858).
Antun Yusuf Hanna Diyab was a Syrian Maronite writer and storyteller. He originated the best-known versions of the tales of Aladdin and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves which have been added to the One Thousand and One Nights since French orientalist Antoine Galland translated and included them, after which they soon became popular across the West.
14th-century Arabic manuscript of Arabian nights
Historical view of Aleppo in the 18th century
Title page of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, by Max Liebert, 1912