Maqmt Ab Zayd al-Sarj

Maqmt Ab Zayd al-Sarj is a scholarly, Arabic-only edition of the celebrated work by al-arr, which is also available in English translation from the Library of Arabic Literature as Impostures. Al-arr's text consists of fifty stories about the adventures of the itinerant con man and master of persuasion Ab Zayd al-Sarj, as told by the equally itinerant and often gullible narrator al-rith ibn Hmmam. Al-arr was a virtuoso writer of the rhymed prose narrative genre known as the maqmah, which would continue as a popular literary form into the twentieth century. An Arabic edition with an Arabic foreword and English scholarly apparatus.