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Maqā : māt Abī Zayd Al-Sarūjī
Overview
Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Sarūjī is a scholarly, Arabic-only edition of the celebrated work by al-Ḥarīrī, which is also available in English translation from the Library of Arabic Literature as Impostures. Al-Ḥarīrī's text consists of fifty stories about the adventures of the itinerant con man and master of persuasion Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī, as told by the equally itinerant and often gullible narrator al-Ḥārith ibn Hāmmam. Al-Ḥarīrī was a virtuoso writer of the rhymed prose narrative genre known as the maqāmah, which would continue as a popular literary form into the twentieth century.
An Arabic edition with an Arabic foreword and English scholarly apparatus.This item is Non-Returnable
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- ISBN-13: 9781479800896
- ISBN-10: 1479800899
- Publisher: New York University Press
- Publish Date: May 2020
- Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
- Page Count: 352
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