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The Portrait of Abu l-Qasim al-Baghdadi al-Tamimi (Hardcover)
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The Portrait of Abu l-Qasim al-Baghdadi al-Tamimi (Hardcover)
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Hikayat Abi l-Qasim al-Baghdadi (The Portrait of Abu l-Qasim
al-Baghdadi) is an 11th-century Arabic work by Abu l-Mutahhar
Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Azdi which tells the story of a Baghdadi
party-crasher crashing a party in Isfahan. It is introduced by its
author as a microcosm of Baghdad. This work, written in prose but
containing numerous poems, is widely hailed among scholars as a
narrative unique in the history of Arabic literature, but The
Portrait also reflects a much larger tradition of banquet texts,
from "Trimalchio's Dinner Party" and Plato's Symposium to the works
of Rabelais. It also paints a portrait of a party-crasher who is at
once a holy man and a rogue, a figure familiar among scholars of
the ancient Cynic tradition or other portrayals of wise fools,
tricksters, and saints from literatures around the Mediterranean
and beyond. While some early scholars of The Portrait dismissed it
as disgusting and obscene, this work, with its wealth of
material-cultural, philosophical, spiritual, and literary
treasures, is much more than just a "dirty book". Following an
introduction, which offers new insights into the relationship of
the work to both its Greek predecessors and to its European
descendants, the volume presents a new, improved edition of the
Arabic text, together with a richly annotated translation, that
aims at being both scholarly and readable, reflecting the often
racy style of the Arabic. This makes it not only useful to
specialists and students of medieval Arabic literature, but also
accessible to a much wider general readership of those interested
in comparative literature or "world literature". There are
extensive indexes of names, places, subjects, and rhymes.
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