900 Years of Trickery: Al-Ḥarīrī From Leiden to Los Angeles

Al-Ḥarīrī’s sixth/twelfth-century story collection (the Maqāmāt, or Impostures) is famous for its rhymes, obscure vocabulary, and complex wordplay. Despite its difficulty, it was used as a text to teach Arabic, a function it continued to serve even after it was introduced to Europe in the seventeent...

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Subtitles:Ḥarīrī, Tanūkhī, and Wāqwāq
Main Author: Cooperson, Michael 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Journal of Abbasid Studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 159-183
Further subjects:B Translation
B al-Ḥarīrī
B French Orientalists
B Dutch Orientalists
B Maqāmāt
B British Orientalists
B Impostures
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