{"product_id":"maqamat-abi-zayd-al-saruji-2","title":"Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Sarūjī","description":"\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\nAn Arabic edition with an Arabic foreword and English scholarly apparatus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"al-Ḥarīrī","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573404008630,"sku":"9781479800926","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781479800926.jpg?v=1712136042","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/maqamat-abi-zayd-al-saruji-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}