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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 wife’s wealth. Ali Baba marries a poor woman and settles into the trade of a ...
Ali Baba overhearing one of the thieves saying "Open Sesame". "Open sesame" (French: Sésame, ouvre-toi; Arabic: افتح يا سمسم, romanized: iftaḥ yā simsim) is a magical phrase in the story of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" in Antoine Galland's version of One Thousand and One Nights. It opens the mouth of a cave in which forty ...
Some of the stories commonly associated with the Arabian Nights—particularly "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"—were not part of the collection in the original Arabic versions, but were instead added to the collection by French translator Antoine Galland after he heard them from Syrian writer Hanna Diyab ...
Morgiana (Arabic: مرجانة , marjāna or murjāna, 'small pearl') is a clever slave girl from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. She is initially in Cassim's household but on his death she joins his brother, Ali Baba, and through her quick-wittedness she saves Ali's life many times, eventually killing his worst enemy, the leader of the ...
Long-time readers should know that I'm very skeptical of Alibaba (NYSE:BABA). It's unlikely that I'll ever invest in Alibaba stock. There would have to be a massive simplification of their ...
The name Alif Laila is a short form of the original Arabic title of the One ... > Story of the First Traveller ... > Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves [4] (Ali Baba aur ...
Alibaba generated $31 billion in revenue during the quarter ending Sep. 30, a 9% increase year-on-year. The company earned $3.7 billion in net income, versus a $3.1 billion loss during the same ...
(Reuters) - China's Alibaba said on Friday it had agreed to pay $433.5 million to settle a U.S. class-action lawsuit filed by investors alleging monopolistic practices by the e-commerce giant.