Ahmed (Arabian Nights)

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In the "Arabian Nights", Ahmed is a prince, noted for a magic tent which would expand so as to shelter an army, and contract so that it could go into one's pocket.

Ahmed (Achmed) is the youngest of three sons of a Sultan of the Indies. The three princes want to marry their cousin Princess Nouronnihar. The Sultan will give her to the prince who brings back the most extraordinary rare object. Houssain, the eldest, travels to Bisnagar (Vijayanagara) in India and buys a magic teleporting tapestry. Ali travels to Schiraz, the capital Persia, and buys a magic perspective glass that can see for hundreds of miles. Ahmed travels to Samarkand city and buys an apple that can cure any disease if the sick person smells it. Ahmed rescues the Princess Peri Banu (or Paribanou), a peri.

The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou[1] is in Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book taken from Arabian Nights, and in the animated film The Adventures of Prince Achmed(1926).

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