Maqāmāt Abī Zayd Al-Sarūjī

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Av al-Ḥarīrī, al-Hariri, Al-Ḥarīrī, al-¿ariri, Al-&, Michael Cooperson

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-05-05
Mått152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt680 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLibrary of Arabic Literature
Antal sidor277
FörlagNew York University Press
MedarbetareKilito,Abdelfattah
ISBN9781479800896

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al-Ḥarīrī (Author) Al-Ḥarīrī (d. 516/1122) was a poet, scholar, and government official from Basra, Iraq. He is celebrated for his virtuosity in producing rhymed prose narratives, the Maqāmāt.Michael Cooperson (Editor) Michael Cooperson is Professor of Arabic in the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at UCLA. His translations include The Life of Ibn Ḥanbal by Ibn al-Jawzī for the Library of Arabic Literature, and The Author and His Doubles by the eminent Moroccan literary critic Abdelfattah Kilito.Abdelfattah Kilito (Foreword by) Abdelfattah Kilito is the author of several acclaimed studies of Arabic literature, including Arabs and the Art of Storytelling and a study of the maqāmāt genre. He is the recipient of the Great Moroccan Award, the Al Owais Award for Criticism and Literature Studies, and a Prix from the Académie Française.