Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Sarūjī

Maq?m?t Ab? Zayd al-Sar?j? is a scholarly, Arabic-only edition of the celebrated work by al-?ar?r?, which is also available in English translation from the Library of Arabic Literature as Impostures. Al-?ar?r?'s text consists of fifty stories about the adventures of the itinerant con man and master of persuasion Ab? Zayd al-Sar?j?, as told by the equally itinerant and often gullible narrator al-??rith ibn H?mmam. Al-?ar?r? was a virtuoso writer of the rhymed prose narrative genre known as the maq?mah, which would continue as a popular literary form into the twentieth century.An Arabic edition with an Arabic foreword and English scholarly apparatus.