"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" (Arabic: علي بابا والأربعون لصا) is a folk tale in Arabic added to the One Thousand and One Nights in the 18th century by its French translator Antoine Galland, who heard it from Syrian storyteller See more

Ali Baba and his older brother, Cassim (Arabic: قاسم Qāsim, sometimes spelled Kasim), are the sons of a merchant. After their father's death, the greedy Cassim marries a wealthy woman and becomes well-to-do, living lazily on their father's business and his … See more

Audio recordings and music
Audio readings/dramatizations include:
• Dick Bentley played Ali Baba in a musical … See more

The tale was added to the story collection One Thousand and One Nights by one of its European translators, Antoine Galland, who called his volumes See more

Classification
The story has been classified in the Aarne–Thompson-Uther classification system as ATU 954, "The Forty Thieves". The tale type enjoys "almost universal ... diffusion".
Variants See more

• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (e-text, in English, at Bartleby.com)
• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves at the Internet Movie Database
• Arabian Nights at the Internet Movie Database See more