| Maqāmāt Abī Zayd Al-Sarūjī Contributor(s): Al-Ḥarīrī (Author), Cooperson, Michael (Editor), Kilito, Abdelfattah (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1479800899 ISBN-13: 9781479800896 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Middle Eastern |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.40 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |