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** Another one being the story of a King discovering his wife was cheating on him with what later translations claim to be the ugliest man on earth. Apparently more accurate translations was simply that she was cheating on him with a black slave.
** At times it is (or was at least) a convention for Islamic storytellers to say use as preliminary decorations to their stories, phrases like "'Tis said-but Allah alone knows." While this comes across mostly as flourish to a Westerner, to a Moslem it was a way to avoid annoyance from religious authorities as the habitual distinction between lying and storytelling wasn't always taken for granted. If Allah alone knows, [[The Storyteller]] couldn't be held to be dishonest as he was theoretically reporting what was said, and of course "Allah alone knows."
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* [[Why Would Anyone Take Him Back?]]: (In the 2010 musical) {{spoiler|The male genie and Aladdin take back Djinninia and Jasmina in spite of all the wrong they've done.}}
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