The Hall of Wisdom: and other tales

The culture of the Middle East contains a vast repository of stories. Circulating for hundreds of years in oral form, and often told by professional storytellers in the marketplace, the West became aware of them initially through Bible stories, and later through versions of the Arabian Tales in The One Thousand and One Nights.

Complex and often multilayered, connected to Sufist thought, these stories can reveal deep psychological understanding of human behaviour, as well as humour and life g...