Maqāmāt Abī Zayd Al-Sarūjī

al-Ḥarīrī (Author), Michael Cooperson (Edited by), Abdelfattah Kilito (Foreword by)

9781479800896

Hardback, published 5 May 2020

352 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.68 kg

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.