Everyday life in medieval Baghdad : the observations and tales of a Mesopotamian judge / ʻAbū al-Muḥassin ibn ʻAlī Tanūkhī ; translated by David Samuel Margoliouth ; introduction by Robert Irwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tanūkhī, al-Muḥassin ibn ʻAlī, 940?-994, author.

Contributor:

Margoliouth, D. S. (David Samuel), 1858-1940, translator.

Irwin, Robert, 1946-2024, writer of introduction.

Standardized Title:

Nishwār al-muḥāḍarah wa-akhbār al-mudhākarah. English

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Anecdotes--Iraq.

Anecdotes.

Anecdotes--Islamic Empire.

Table-talk--Early works to 1800.

Table-talk.

Islamic Empire--History--750-1258.

Islamic Empire.

History.

Iraq.

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 24 cm

Edition:

New edition.

Other Title:

Observations and tales of a Mesopotamian judge

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : B I.B. Tauris, 2018.

Summary:

"Stories of court life, money, torture, swindles, sex, dreams and disease, combine the comic with the sinister and bizarre. Always entertaining, and told with wit and eloquence, the result is a wonderful first-person account of everyday life in medieval Baghdad and its surroundings. This two volume set includes translations of sections of Tankukhi's manuscript that only came to light at a later date and which are both little known and rare"-- Publisher's web site.

Contents:

Volume 1. Observations and tales of a Mesopotamian judge

volume 2. More observations and tales of a Mesopotamian judge.

Notes:

"Volume I first published in 1922 by the Royal Asiatic Society as The Table Talk of a Mesopotamian judge"; "Volume II translations ... first published in Islamic Culture, 1929-1932"--Title-page versos.

Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, page xxiii).

ISBN:

9781784531201

1784531200

OCLC:

907205592

Publisher Number:

99977402507