Maqamat Abi Zayd al-Saruji

Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Sarūjī is a scholarly, Arabic-only edition of the celebrated work by al-Ḥarīrī, which is also available in English translation from the Library of Arabic Literature as Impostures. This work consists of fifty stories about the adventures of the itinerant con man and master of persuasion Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī, as told by the equally itinerant and often clueless narrator al-Ḥārith ibn Hāmmam. Al-Ḥarīrī was a virtuoso writer of the rhymed prose narrative genre known as the maqāmah, which would continue as a popular literary form into the twentieth century.

Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Sarūjī este o editie erudita, numai araba, a lucrarii celebrate de al-Ḥarīrī, care este disponibila si in traducere in limba engleza din Biblioteca de literatura araba sub numele de Imposturi. Aceasta lucrare consta in cincizeci de povesti despre aventurile omului ambulant si maestrului persuasiunii Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī, asa cum este spus de naratorul la fel de itinerant si adesea lipsit de idei al-Ḥārith ibn Hāmmam.