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Availability:In StockContributor:Al-Ḥarīrī, Michael Cooperson (Translator), Abdelfattah Kilito (Foreword by)Series:Library of Arabic Literature #65Publish date:2020-05-05Pages:542
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9781479800841ISBN-10:1479800848UPC:9781479800841Book Category:Literary Collections, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Middle Eastern, AfricanSize:9.60 x 6.20 x 1.50 inchesWeight:2.0018Product ID:SCRA9QYWMD

Impostures

One of the Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Books of the Year

Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category

Shortlist, 2021 National Translation Award

Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature Category

Fifty rogue's tales translated fifty ways

An itinerant con man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning continents and centuries. These elements come together in Impostures, a...

Series: Library of Arabic Literature #65
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9781479800841ISBN-10:1479800848UPC:9781479800841Book Category:Literary Collections, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Middle Eastern, AfricanSize:9.60 x 6.20 x 1.50 inchesWeight:2.0018Product ID:SCRA9QYWMD
al-Ḥarīrī (Author)
Al-Ḥarīrī (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 Maqāmāt.

Abdelfattah Kilito (Foreword by)
Abdelfattah Kilito is the author of several acclaimed studies of Arabic literature, including Arabs and the Art of Storytelling and a study of the maqāmāt genre. He is the...

Publisher: New York University Press

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