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Aladdin (a corruption of the Arabic name 'Alā 'al Dīn, Arabic: علاء الدين literally "nobility of faith") is one of the tales in the Middle-Eastern literary epic, 1001 Nights, and one of the most famous in Western culture.
Aladdin discovers a lesser, polite djinn is summoned by a ring loaned to him by the sorcerer but forgotten during the double-cross.
For a narrator unaware of the existence of America, Aladdin's China would represent "the Utter East" while the sorcerer's homeland of Morocco represented "the Utter West" (the name "Morocco" is itself a corruption of the Arabic for "West", and the story introduces the sorcerer as "a westerner").
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