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...(Durrat al-ghawwāṣ fī awhām al-khawaṣṣ). The Maqāmāt recounts in the words of the narrator, al-Ḥārith ibn Hammām, his repeated encounters with Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī, an unabashed confidence artist and wanderer possessing all the eloquence, grammatical...
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