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Badroulbadour / Badr ul-Badour / Badr al-Badur (Arabic:بدر البدورBadru l-Budūr, "full moon of full moons")[1] is a princess whomAladdin married inThe Story of Aladdin; or, the Wonderful Lamp. Her name uses the full moon as a metaphor for female beauty, which is common inArabic literature and throughout theArabian Nights.
When Aladdin finds a magic lamp, he discovers it contains ajinni bound to do the bidding of the person holding thelamp. With the aid of the jinni, Aladdin—an impoverished young man who, in other circumstances, could not have aspired to marry a princess—becomes rich and powerful and marries Princess Badroulbadour.
InDisney'sAladdin, her name was changed toJasmine and she was made anArabian princess. She is also mentioned in a poem byWallace Stevens called "The Worms at Heaven's Gate" in his bookHarmonium. She is a character in the children's novelWishing Moon byMichael O. Tunnell, and is portrayed as a scheming, black-hearted villainess.
The name Badroulbadour also appears in the novelsThe Good Soldier byFord Madox Ford, andThe Turmoil byBooth Tarkington (as Princess Bedrulbudour), andCome Dance with Me byRussell Hoban. Hoban also mentions Badoura as the name of an Arabian princess inThe Arabian Nights.Monica Baldwin, in her novelThe Called and the Chosen, uses the name Badroulbadour for the Siamese cat who belonged to her heroine, Ursula, before she became anun.
