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Before World Literature: The Trickster Tales of al-?ariri in an Age of Commentary

By Matthew L. Keegan
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By Matthew L. Keegan
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An account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī, a twelfth-century collection of fifty trickster stories

Before World Literature offers an account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of one of the most widely read Arabic texts of the postclassical period: the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī, a twelfth-century collection of fifty trickster stories written in an elaborate and highly allusive form of prose. Innumerable Muslim sch...

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LiteratureLiterary CriticismMiddle Eastern & Arabic LiteratureMiddle Eastern Literature - Literary Criticism