Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Sarūjī / / al-Ḥarīrī; ed. by Michael Cooperson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: al-Ḥarīrī,
• HerausgeberIn: Cooperson, Michael,
• MitwirkendeR: Kilito, Abdelfattah,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Library of Arabic Literature ; 66
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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. This work 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 clueless 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Letter from the General Editor -- About This Scholarly Edition -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Map: The World of Abū Zayd -- Note on the Edition -- Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Sarūjī -- Author’s Introduction -- Maqāmah 1 -- Maqāmah 2 -- Maqāmah 3 -- Maqāmah 4 -- Maqāmah 5 -- Maqāmah 6 -- Maqāmah 7 -- Maqāmah 8 -- Maqāmah 9 -- Maqāmah 10 -- Maqāmah 11 -- Maqāmah 12 -- Maqāmah 13 -- Maqāmah 14 -- Maqāmah 15 -- Maqāmah 16 -- Maqāmah 17 -- Maqāmah 18 -- Maqāmah 19 -- Maqāmah 20 -- Maqāmah 21 -- Maqāmah 22 -- Maqāmah 23 -- Maqāmah 24 -- Maqāmah 25 -- Maqāmah 26 -- Maqāmah 27 -- Maqāmah 28 -- Maqāmah 29 -- Maqāmah 30 -- Maqāmah 31 -- Maqāmah 32 -- Maqāmah 33 -- Maqāmah 34 -- Maqāmah 35 -- Maqāmah 36 -- Maqāmah 37 -- Maqāmah 38 -- Maqāmah 39 -- Maqāmah 40 -- Maqāmah 41 -- Maqāmah 42 -- Maqāmah 43 -- Maqāmah 44 -- Maqāmah 45 -- Maqāmah 46 -- Maqāmah 47 -- Maqāmah 48 -- Maqāmah 49 -- Maqāmah 50 -- Bibliography -- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute -- About the Typefaces -- Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature -- About the Editor