{"product_id":"9781479800896-maqamat-abi-zayd-al-saruji","title":"Maqāmāt Abī Zayd Al-Sarūjī","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Sarūjī \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eImpostures. \u003c\/i\u003eAl-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 \u003ci\u003emaqāmah\u003c\/i\u003e, which would continue as a popular literary form into the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e An Arabic edition with an Arabic foreword and English scholarly apparatus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56450737537398,"sku":"9781479800896","price":36.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34733121.jpg?v=1760453895","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781479800896-maqamat-abi-zayd-al-saruji","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}