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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. Al-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 maqāmah, which would continue as a popular literary form into the twentieth century.
An Arabic edition with an Arabic foreword and English scholarly apparatus.
<b>Al-Ḥarīrī</b> (d. 516/1122) was a poet, scholar, and government official from Basra, Iraq. He is celebrated for his virtuosity in producing rhymed prose narratives, the <i>Maq</i><i>āmāt</i>.
Michael Cooperson (Editor)
<b>Michael Cooperson </b>is Professor of Arabic in the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at UCLA. His translations include <i>The Life of Ibn </i><i>Ḥanbal</i> by Ibn al-Jawzī for the Library of Arabic Literature, and <i>The Author and His Doubles</i> by the eminent Moroccan literary critic Abdelfattah Kilito.<b></b>
Abdelfattah Kilito (Foreword by)
<b>Abdelfattah Kilito</b> is the author of several acclaimed studies of Arabic literature, including<i> Arabs and the Art of Storytelling </i>and a study of the <i>maqāmāt</i> genre. He is the recipient of the Great Moroccan Award, the Al Owais Award for Criticism and Literature Studies, and a Prix from the Académie Française.