Impostures. al-Ḥarīrī

      AL-ḤARĪRĪ

      translated by

      Michael Cooperson

      foreword by

      Abdelfattah Kilito

      volume editors

      Devin J. Stewart

      Richard Sieburth

      NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

      new york

      

Table of Contents

      1  Letter from the General Editor

      2  Foreword: In Praise of Pretense

      3  Acknowledgements

      4  Introduction

      5  Map: The World of Abū Zayd

      6  Note on the Translation

      7  Notes

      8  Bibliography

      9  Impostures The Author’s Introduction Imposture 1: Ever the Twain Shall Meet Imposture 2: A Basran Boswell Imposture 3: Sing o’ Rich, Sing o’ Poor Imposture 4: Euphues’ Damietta Imposture 5: Woolf at the Door Imposture 6: Plain Anglish Imposture 7: Gangs of New Saybin Imposture 8: Text/ile Imposture 9: Stringing Her Along Imposture 10: Alharet Eben Hammam His Tale Imposture 11: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Preacher Imposture 12: Arabia Absurda Imposture 13: The Cozening Quean of Babylon Imposture 14: Scot Free Imposture 15: Hobson’s Choice Imposture 16: Con Safos Imposture 17: Back Words Imposture 18: A Scandal in Mesopotamia, or, The Tell-Tale Tart Imposture 19: My Man Zayd Imposture 20: Down Under Imposture 21: Down in Bam Imposture 22: Leveraging the Flow Imposture 23: Three Men in a Dub Imposture 24: Arabians Learn Arabian Imposture 25: De Froid Trempé Imposture 26: What the Dickens? Imposture 27: The Wild East Imposture 28: A Void in Samarkand Imposture 29: The Behn of His Exiſtence Imposture 30: Stop Hole Abbey Imposture 31: A Hajji’s Progreſs Imposture 32: Jury-Rigged Imposture 33: The Joy of Yarabic Imposture 34: The Fraud of Slavery Imposture 35: De-Canted Imposture 36: What Is the Question? Imposture 37: Off the Heezie Imposture 38: Wocky Talkie Imposture 39: The Seafarer Imposture 40: Iran go Brágh Imposture 41: The Cup of Counsel Imposture 42: Discruciate This! Imposture 43: Containing Great Variety of Matter Imposture 44: Near East Enders Imposture 45: Cat among the Pidgins Imposture 46: Araby Imposture 47: The Confidence Men Imposture 48: Alcoholics Eponymous Imposture 49: The Parliament of Rogues Imposture 50: See Saw Margery Daw The Author’s Retraction

      10  About NYU Abu Dhabi Institute

      11  Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature

      12  About the Cover Artist

      13  About the Translator

      Landmarks

      1 Table of Contents

      2  Cover

      

Letter from the General Editor

      The Library of Arabic Literature makes available Arabic editions and English translations of significant works of Arabic literature, with