With the Arabs in history and legend

There are many stories from history, and many Arab myths from which a writer can make use of them today as living material for a literary work. The author says, "It is enough for me, reader, that you sit at this small book at intervals, so that a piece of it takes only a little of your time, and you get out of it." I have achieved - I hope - some reward in the form of artistic pleasure, lesson, or...