> Galland's Aladdin was set in China, so actually the entire middle-eastern setting comes from The Thief of Baghdad. Wikipedia seems to disagree: > The openin

> Galland's Aladdin was set in China, so actually the entire middle-eastern setting comes from The Thief of Baghdad. Wikipedia seems to disagree: > The opening sentences of the story, in both the Galland and the Burton versions, set it in "one of the cities of China". On the other hand, there is practically nothing in the rest of the story that is inconsistent with a Middle Eastern setting.