Abu Mohammed Al-Qasim Ali, known as Al Hariri of Basra, was an
eleventh-century Arab merchant, grammarian and writer, who
continued and developed a literary genre initiated by the Great
Hamadhani. The works of Al Hariri are considered among the classics
of Arabian literature, representing a formal literary style
encorporating a series of stories in rhymed prose, woven round the
characters of a narrator and his amusing companion who turns up in
many disguises. These stories, or 'Rhetorical Anecdotes' form the
collection known as the Makamat ('Assemblies'), in this context
taken to mean 'discourse' or 'conversation'. The embody a precise
literary form in which the subject matter is subordinate to the
syle. This edition contains a comprehensive study of the life and
works of Al Hariri, and includes copious anotations essential for
the modern reader's appreciation of the text.
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