Before World Literature

An account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of the Maqamat of al-Hariri, a twelfth-century collection of fifty trickster storiesBefore World Literature offers an account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of one of the most widely read Arabic texts of the postclassical period: the Maqamat of al-Hariri, a twelfth-century collection of fifty tric...