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Impostures / Al-Ḥarīrī ; translated by Michael Cooperson ; foreword by Abdelfattah Kilito.
LIBRA PJ7755.H3 M313 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ḥarīrī, 1054-1122, author.
- Kilito, Abdelfattah, 1945- author of foreword.
- Series:
- Library of Arabic literature
- Standardized Title:
- Maqāmāt. English
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arabic fiction--Early works to 1800.
- Arabic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xlix, 492 pages : map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "An itinerant con man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning continents and centuries. These elements come together in Impostures, a groundbreaking new translation of a celebrated work of Arabic literature. Impostures follows the roguish Abū Zayd al-Sarūjīin his adventures around the medieval Middle East-we encounter him impersonating a preacher, pretending to be blind, and lying to a judge. In every escapade he shows himself to be a brilliant and persuasive wordsmith, composing poetry, palindromes, and riddles on the spot. Michael Cooperson transforms Arabic wordplay into English wordplay of his own. Featuring picaresque adventures and linguistic acrobatics, Impostures brings the spirit of this masterpiece of Arabic literature into English in a dazzling display of translation"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: IMPOSTURES
- Imposture 1 Ever the Twain Shall Meet
- Imposture 2 A Basran Boswell
- Imposture 3 Sing o' Rich, Sing o' Poor
- Imposture 4 Euphues' Damietta
- Imposture 5 Woolf at the Door
- Imposture 6 Plain Anglish
- Imposture 7 Gangs of New Saybin
- Imposture 8 Text/ile
- Imposture 9 Stringing Her Along
- Imposture 10 Alharet Eben Hammam His Tale
- Imposture 11 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Preacher
- Imposture 12 Arabia Absurda
- Imposture 13 The Cozening Quean of Babylon
- Imposture 14 Scot Free
- Imposture 15 Hobson's Choice
- Imposture 16 Con Safos
- Imposture 17 Back Words
- Imposture 18 A Scandal in Mesopotamia, or, The Tell-Tale Tart
- Imposture 19 My Man Zayd
- Imposture 20 Down Under
- Imposture 21 Down in Bam
- Imposture 22 Leveraging the Flow
- Imposture 23 Three Men in a Dub
- Imposture 24 Arabians Learn Arabian
- Imposture 25 De Froid Trempe
- Imposture 26 What the Dickens?
- Imposture 27 The Wild East
- Imposture 28 A Void in Samarkand
- Imposture 29 The Behn of His Exiftence
- Imposture 30 Stop Hole Abbey
- Imposture 31 A Hajji's Progrefs
- Imposture 32 Jury-Rigged
- Imposture 33 The Joy of Yarabic
- Imposture 34 The Fraud of Slavery
- Imposture 35 De-Canted
- Imposture 36 What Is the Question?
- Imposture 37 Off the Heezie
- Imposture 38 Wocky Talkie
- Imposture 39 The Seafarer
- Imposture 40 Iran go Bragh
- Imposture 41 The Cup of Counsel
- Imposture 42 Discruciate This!
- Imposture 43 Containing Great Variety of Matter
- Imposture 44 Near East Enders
- Imposture 45 Cat among the Pidgins
- Imposture 46 Araby
- Imposture 47 The Confidence Men
- Imposture 48 Alcoholics Eponymous
- Imposture 49 The Parliament of Rogues
- Imposture 50 See Saw Margery Daw.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Arabic.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ḥarīrī, 1054-1122 Impostures
- ISBN:
- 9781479800841
- 1479800848
- OCLC:
- 1126549978
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