The Portrait of Abu l-Qasim al-Baghdadi al-Tamimi

New translation and commentary on the scandalous and often 'racy' 11th century tale of a Baghdadi party-crasher in Isfahan: a holy man and a rogue.

About the author

Emily Selove is a lecturer in Medieval Arabic Literature at the University of Exeter. She is the translator of al-Khatib al-Baghdadi's 11th-century work on party-crashing, The Art of Party-Crashing in Medieval Iraq. Geert Jan van Gelder retired as Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford, in 2012 and returned to the Netherlands in 2015. He has published widely on Classical Arabic literature.

Summary

New translation and commentary on the scandalous and often 'racy' 11th century tale of a Baghdadi party-crasher in Isfahan.

Product details

• Authors: Ab&, Ab&363; L-Mu&7789;ahhar Mu&7717;ammad, Abu l-Mutahhar Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Azdi, Al-Azd&, Ibn A&, Ab& L Ibn A&7717;mad Al-Azd&299;
• Assisted by: Geert Jan van Gelder (Editor), Geert Jan van Gelder (Editor), Emily Sealove (Editor), Emily Selove (Editor), Geert Jan Van Gelder (Editor)
• Publisher: Gibb Memorial Trust
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781913604042
• ISBN: 978-1-913604-04-2
• No. of pages: 486
• Dimensions: 248 mm x 177 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 1004 g
• Illustrations: b/w
• Series: Gibb Memorial Trust
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies