Agrabah

In the tale of Ala al-Din and the magic lamp, it is said that the main character, the son of Hassan the tailor, lived "in a Persian city." In the tale of Salye's translation, the name of the city where Ala al-din lived is Kalkas. There was no such city, just as there was no Agrabah, the fruit of the cartoon writers' fiction.

Agrabah is an abstract oriental city, the epitome of Oriental luxury. The silhouettes of the Sultan's palace may vaguely resemble the Taj Mahal mausoleum in Indian Agra, and then the cartoon Agrabah will seem like a distorted name of a real city. As for the architecture of the palace, in reality it largely depended on the purse and taste of the construction customer. Without an accurate reference to the era and the area, it is difficult to speculate whether the ruler's palace could look like it is shown in the cartoon, or could not.

The prototype of Jafar in the cartoon could be Jafar ibn Yahya Barmaki (767-803)— the vizier (wazir) of Caliph Harun ar-Rashid. He gained great influence with him, but then fell out of favor and was beheaded on his orders. However, the historical Ja Far has little in common with the cartoon character, except that he has a long neck.

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