Uncovering the professional secrets of con artists and swindlers in the medieval Middle East The Book of Charlatans is
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A major translation achievement, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose,
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The adventures of the man who created Aladdin The Book of Travels is Ḥannā Diyāb’s remarkable first-person account of h
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Written in mid-seventeenth-century Egypt, Risible Rhymes is in part a short, comic disquisition on “rural” verse, mockin
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Commissioned by the Indian government to prepare a descriptive catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts of the Library of Ind
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In applying the standards of modern literary criticism to medieval Arabic literature, Andras Hamori concentrates on thos
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