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Transcriber's Note: Index items in [brackets] indicate a reference to a footnote and not a page number.
About This Book
A collection of essays and translations exploring Persian and wider Near Eastern literature, folklore, and humor. It opens with a biographical sketch and critical account of a major Persian poet and his Gulistán, then gathers anecdotes, witticisms, and fables that illustrate Oriental humour; retells and comments on the Tuti Náma frame-stories; compiles rabbinical legends, parables, and aphorisms; and includes an Arabian love tale, an apocryphal life of Aesop, and short essays on medieval clergy and cultural customs. The pieces combine summary, paraphrase, and commentary to present stories, moral sayings, and comparative folklore for a general readership.