Editing Aladdin (section)

===Distribution===
Since its appearance in ''The One Thousand and One Nights'', the tale has integrated into oral tradition.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ranke |first=Kurt |chapter=Alad(d)in (AaTh 561) |trans-chapter=Aladdin (ATU 561) |title=[[Enzyklopädie des Märchens|Enzyklopädie des Märchens Online]] |editor1=Rolf Wilhelm Brednich |editor2=Heidrun Alzheimer |editor3=Hermann Bausinger |editor4=Wolfgang Brückner |editor5=Daniel Drascek |editor6=Helge Gerndt |editor7=Ines Köhler-Zülch |editor8=Klaus Roth |editor9=Hans-Jörg Uther |location=Berlin, Boston|publisher=De Gruyter |date=2016 |orig-year=1977 |pages=243–244 |language=DE |doi=10.1515/emo.1.059}}</ref> Scholars Ton Deker and Theo Meder located variants across Europe and the Middle East.<ref>Deker, Ton; Meder, Theo. "Aladdin en de wonderlamp". In: ''Van Aladdin tot Zwaan kleef aan. Lexicon van sprookjes: ontstaan, ontwikkeling, variaties''. 1ste druk. Ton Dekker & Jurjen van der Kooi & Theo Meder. Kritak: Sun. 1997. p. 40.</ref> In addition, according to scholar [[Kurt Ranke]], in ''[[Enzyklopädie des Märchens]]'', the "greatest distribution density" occurs in Europe and in the Mediterranean region, with variants also collected in the Middle East (Turkey, Palestine, Iraq, Yemen, Iran), Central Asia (in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan), India (among the [[Santal people]]),<ref>{{cite book |last=Campbell |first=A. |chapter=The Magic Lamp |title=Santal Folk-Tales |location=Pokhuria, India |publisher=Santal Mission Press |date=1891 |pages=1–5}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Brown |first1=W. Norman |title=The Pañcatantra in Modern Indian Folklore |journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society |date=1919 |volume=39 |pages=1–54 |doi=10.2307/592712 |jstor=592712 }}</ref> and in Southeast Asia (Indonesia and the Philippines).<ref>{{cite book |last=Ranke |first=Kurt |chapter=Alad(d)in (AaTh 561) |trans-chapter=Aladdin (ATU 561) |title=[[Enzyklopädie des Märchens|Enzyklopädie des Märchens Online]] |editor1=Rolf Wilhelm Brednich |editor2=Heidrun Alzheimer |editor3=Hermann Bausinger |editor4=Wolfgang Brückner |editor5=Daniel Drascek |editor6=Helge Gerndt |editor7=Ines Köhler-Zülch |editor8=Klaus Roth |editor9=Hans-Jörg Uther |location=Berlin, Boston|publisher=De Gruyter |date=2016 |orig-year=1977 |page=243 |language=DE |doi=10.1515/emo.1.059}}</ref>