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The Thief of Bagdad

حرامي بغداد

The Thief of Bagdad.

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At a glance

Identifiers
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Review
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Screening Room

Format
Film · Muslim society as setting
Released
1940 CE · 1359 AH†
Countries
GB · US
Languages
en (original)
Approach
for children
Depiction of sacred figures
The Prophet: Not applicable · Companions: Not applicable · Imams: Not applicable

Where to watch officially: No official link recorded. · Listed, not endorsed.

Overview

A classic British fantasy film about a legendary Baghdad; part of it was shot in Egyptian studios, and it became the Western reference image of Baghdad of imagination. 1 2

People and things also explored

al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Aljamia (aljamiado: Spanish written in Arabic script, and its literature)· Arabesque· Arab naming of children after plants· Girih· Hedwig glass· The wise sayings attributed to Ali· Horse colours and markings in Timurid painting

Sources

  1. Wikidata
  2. IMDb
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islam.museum contributors. “The Thief of Bagdad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/screen/harami-baghdad-1940/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.

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al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant

Al-Hamdani's register of the peninsula's tongues records that the highland Himyar and Ja'da keep 'something of tanahmir' — Himyaritic speech — eliding consonants: 'bi-bn Ma'am' for 'bi-bn al-'amm', 'simmi'' for 'isma''. He counts Kinda and Hamdan the most eloquent of the south, says Mahra's speech resembles the 'ajam's, and names Nahj, Abyan and Dathina the purest — the earliest detailed witness to Old Himyaritic surviving on fourth-century tongues.