Talk:David Jehoahaz Abraham/@comment-25424305-20150805205920/@comment-29648049-20160815222300

Magi really isn't "based on" any holy book. It takes inspiration from several holy books, plus folklore, but it's not meant to be biblically or historically accurate.

I would encourage you to research the stories in  One Thousand and One Nights  which inspired the names and stories of many of the characters is  Magi,  and see that  none  of those stories are followed closely in the manga/anime. For instance, Alibaba has only a few similarites with his counterpart from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, but is not even nearly the same. For the most part, just the names of the characters have been taken and used for Magi, with some character affiliations from the original stories being transferred over to Magi, like how Ali Baba, Cassim, and Morgiana all originate from the same story, with Cassim being Ali Baba's (greedy) elder brother, and Morgiana being a slave girl that Ali Baba meets (whom he then marries off to his son for reasons...)

It's the same with any inspiration Ootaka draws from the Bible or Quran. If you feel like it's an insult, then don't watch it.