Classical Arabic stories : an anthology /
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| Language: | English Arabic |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | Paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- I.Pre-Islamic tales. 1. The sons of Nizar
- 2. The priestess of the Banu Sa'd
- 3. Faithfulness and sense of honor
- 4. Al-Nu'man's outfit
- 5. A lowly man gains a wife
- 6. A charitable gift
- 7. A cunning message
- 8. A noble wife
- 9. The exile of al-Harith ibn Midad
- 10. The story of the cave where Shaddad ibn 'Aad was: how the adventurers entered and what happened to them there
- 11. Luqman
- II. Tales of rulers and other notable persons. 12. 'Amara the Faqih and 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan
- 13. The justice of 'Adud al-Dawla
- 14. The piety of 'Umar ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz
- 15. A further story of 'Umar ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz
- 16. The chief of police and Caliph al-Hadi
- 17. At Khosrow's court
- 18. An Arab at Khosrow's court
- 19. I take refuge in your justice, prince of the faithful
- 20. Tricked she was
- 21. Um Asaya the midwife and the palace of Khumarawayh
- 22. Yazid and Habbada
- 23. A ruse of Mu'awiya
- 24. Caliph 'Umar and the soldier's wife
- 25. Al-Akhtal imprisoned in church
- 26. A miserly governor
- 27. All lies
- 28. Two great musicians
- 29. An attendant of al-Hallaj fasts for fifteen days
- 30. A vizier removes a dessert stain with ink
- 31. How a Baghdadi chief of police questioned suspects
- 32. God alone be thanked
- 33. Al-Hajjaj orders the torture of Azadmard
- 34. Iyas as judge
- 35. The wisdom of Judge Iyas
- 36. Why a judge pardoned a fraudster
- III. Tales of danger and warfare. 37. Ma'n ibn Za'ida and the black man
- 38. Al-Mansour's pride
- 39. With the Byzantines
- 40. Muslims in the court of China
- 41. Greed and treason
- 42. Consequences of oppression
- 43. Avoiding a conflict
- 44. The Byzantine rulers and the Muslim prisoners
- 45. From The lion and the diver
- IV. Tales of religion. 46. The tale of Ka'b ibn Malek
- 47. The tale of Jurayj the worshipper: showing how attending to parents has priority over prayer
- 48. The tale of the crevice people, and of the magician, the monk, and the young man
- 49. The tale of the leper, the bald man, and the blind man
- 50. Virtue and divine reward
- 51. A vision of the next world
- V. Comic tales: Tales of Juha. 52. Juha as a vehicle for satire
- 53. The comic wit of Juha
- 54. Juha the fool
- 55. The logic of Juha
- 56. Juha the judge
- Other comic tales. 57. Abu 'l-Qasim's slippers
- 58. The party crashers
- 59. Me too?
- 60. A quick-witted prisoner
- 61. Al-Hajjaj and al-Muttalib
- 62. A cunning marriage broker
- 63. Forgery on a shaky boat
- 64. A tempting wager
- VI. Tales of the strange or supernatural. 65. The strangest story
- 66. I shall never eat elephant flesh
- 67. A dream come true
- 68. The body snatcher
- 69. The old tailor and his untimely call to prayer
- 70. Crime and punishment
- 71. An unlucky encounter
- 72. The man and the lark
- 73. Two surrealist stories from the desert
- 74. The story of Tamim al-Dari
- VII. Tales of love. 75. A love story
- 76. A strange vow
- 77. A merchant and his wife
- 78. A final meeting
- 79. A party crasher's reward
- 80. Parting and reunion
- VIII. Excerpts from seven major classical works. From Ibn Tufail, Hayy ibn Yaqzan
- From Al-Jahiz, Al-Bukhala' (Book of misers)
- 83. From Ibn al-Muqaffa', Kalila and Dimna
- 84. From Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa (Epistles of the brethren of purity)
- 85. From Al-Maqamat (The assemblies)
- 86. From Abu 'l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri, Risalat al-Ghufran
- 87. From The adventures of Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan: an Arab folk epic.