Marlé Hammond is currently Senior Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture at SOAS University of London, where she has taught courses on Arabic literature and Middle Eastern Cinema. Previously she was British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-2010) and St. John's College Research Centre Fellow (2002-2006) at Oxford University. She was raised in Albany, New York, and studied under Pierre Cachia, George Saliba and Magda Al-Nowaihi at Columbia University in New York City. From June 1990 to June 1991, she was a Center for Arabic Study Abroad Fellow at the American University in Cairo. She now resides in Oxford with her husband and two teenage children.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsA Note on Transliteration and TerminologyA Note on the Manuscripts and Published EditionsA Note on the (Incorrect) Attribution of the Tale to ?Umar b. ShabbaKey Dates1: From Fiction to History and Back: The Tale, its Versions and its Afterlives2: The Tale of al-Barrāq Son of Rawḥān and Laylā the Chaste, in English translation3: The Narrative, Its Components and its 'Novelisation'BibliographyAppendix: The Arabic Text

Marlé Hammond is currently Senior Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture at SOAS University of London, where she has taught courses on Arabic literature and Middle Eastern Cinema. Previously she was British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-2010) and St. John's College Research Centre Fellow (2002-2006) at Oxford University. She was raised in Albany, New York, and studied under Pierre Cachia, George Saliba and Magda Al-Nowaihi at Columbia University in New York City. From June 1990 to June 1991, she was a Center for Arabic Study Abroad Fellow at the American University in Cairo. She now resides in Oxford with her husband and two teenage children.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsA Note on Transliteration and TerminologyA Note on the Manuscripts and Published EditionsA Note on the (Incorrect) Attribution of the Tale to ?Umar b. ShabbaKey Dates1: From Fiction to History and Back: The Tale, its Versions and its Afterlives2: The Tale of al-Barrāq Son of Rawḥān and Laylā the Chaste, in English translation3: The Narrative, Its Components and its 'Novelisation'BibliographyAppendix: The Arabic Text

Marlé Hammond is currently Senior Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture at SOAS University of London, where she has taught courses on Arabic literature and Middle Eastern Cinema. Previously she was British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-2010) and St. John's College Research Centre Fellow (2002-2006) at Oxford University. She was raised in Albany, New York, and studied under Pierre Cachia, George Saliba and Magda Al-Nowaihi at Columbia University in New York City. From June 1990 to June 1991, she was a Center for Arabic Study Abroad Fellow at the American University in Cairo. She now resides in Oxford with her husband and two teenage children.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsA Note on Transliteration and TerminologyA Note on the Manuscripts and Published EditionsA Note on the (Incorrect) Attribution of the Tale to ?Umar b. ShabbaKey Dates1: From Fiction to History and Back: The Tale, its Versions and its Afterlives2: The Tale of al-Barrāq Son of Rawḥān and Laylā the Chaste, in English translation3: The Narrative, Its Components and its 'Novelisation'BibliographyAppendix: The Arabic Text