| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxviii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [385]-386). |
| Contents |
Tales told in houses made of hair : Beduin [Bedouin] tales. The last camel of Emir Hamid (Saudi Arabia) -- Atiyah, the gift of God (Syria) -- The price of pride (Saudi Arabia) -- The foreign wife (Morocco) -- Two mothers mourning (Algeria) -- Successor to the sheikh (Morocco) -- The good neighbors (Iraq) -- The guest who ran away (Tunisia) -- The boy in girl's dress (Syria) -- The Beduin's gazelle (Saudi Arabia) -- The prince in the pit (Syria) -- Father of seven sons (Syria) -- A trip to paradise (Saudi Arabia) -- Full-moon-of-the-night (Egypt) -- The jewel in the sand (Iraq). |
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Djinn, ghouls, and afreets : tales of magic and the supernatural. The girl who spoke jasmines and lilies (Iraq) -- The bird of the golden feather (Syria) -- The nightingale that shrieked (Egypt) -- A tale within a tale (Iraq) -- Flowers that vanished in the night (Syria) -- The maiden of the tree of Raranj and Taranj (Iraq) -- Seven magic hairs (Palestine) -- The girl who banished seven youths (Morocco) -- The bald man at the funeral (Morocco) -- The good apprentice and the bad (Syria) -- A lost shoe of gold (Saudi Arabia) -- The woodcutter's wealthy sister (Syria) -- The ring of the king of the djinn (Egypt) -- What God wrote cannot be unwritten (Iraq) -- The green bird (Egypt). |
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Magical marriages and mismatches : more tales of the supernatural. The iron pestle and the girl with the donkey's head (Libya) -- The boy magician (Morocco) -- One-Tooth and Two-Teeth (Syria) -- What is inscribed on the brow the eye will see (Iraq) -- The fair foster child of the ghoul (Tunisia) -- The little red fish and the clog of gold (Iraq) -- The camel husband (Palestine) -- The princess in the suit of leather (Egypt) -- Sheikh of the lamps (Syria) -- Jubeinah and the slave (Palestine). |
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Beasts that roam the Earth and birds that fly with wings : animal tales. The cat who went to Mecca (Syria) -- The woodcutter without a brain (Morocco) -- Who lied? (Saudi Arabia) -- The hospitality of Abu l'Hssein (Egypt) -- The monkey learns to weave (Syria) -- How the fox got back his tail (Palestine) -- The pious cat (Oman) -- Who has the sweetest flesh on earth? (Palestine) -- The scarab beetle's daughter (Iraq) -- How the monkey got his shape (Palestine) -- King of birds (Tunisia) -- The duty of the host (Saudi Arabia) -- The tortoise and his frog wife (Algeria) -- Little mangy one (Lebanon) -- The knotter of tails (Jordan) -- How the ewe outwitted the jackal (Algeria) -- Two close calls (Morocco) -- Father of a hundred tricks (Algeria) -- Division of the prey (Morocco) -- How the animals kept the lions away (Algeria) -- Suleyman and the little owl (Morocco) -- The angel wedding (Morocco) -- The treachery of man (Tunisia). |
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Famous fools and rascals : stories of Djuha and his kind. Djuha and the donkey (Jordan) -- Djuha borrows a pot (Syria) -- Djuha's meat disappears (Egypt) -- Djuha and the tough chicken (Egypt) -- Djuha fries quails (Egypt) -- Djuha's sleeve (Syria) -- Djuha and the hunter's gift (Morocco) -- Djuha and the basket of figs (Iraq) -- Djuha in his old age (Egypt) -- Si' Djeha cheats the robbers (Algeria) -- How Si' Djeha staved off hunger (Algeria) -- Si' Djeha and the qadi's coat (Tunisia) -- Si' Djeha's miracles (Libya) -- Ben Sikran improves the couscous (Algeria) -- When Ben Sikran owed money (Algeria) -- Ben Sikran's hunger (Algeria) -- Abu Nuwas and the fur cloak (Tunisia) -- Abu Nuwas and the caliph's queen (Syria) -- Abu Nuwas travels with the caliph (Iraq) -- Abu Nuwas and the hundred eggs (Syria) -- Bahlul and the sweetmeats (Iraq) -- The wise man and Bahlul (Palestine) -- Bahlul and the owl (Morocco). |
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Good men and golden words : religious tales and moral instructions. If God wills (Palestine) -- Don't count your chickens (Egypt) -- God disposes (Iraq) -- The truth (Syria) -- A father's advice (Iraq) -- The protection of the prophet Hanun (Palestine) -- Lot and the devil (Palestine) -- Justice (Syria) -- We two against fortune (Saudi Arabia) -- The king who changed his ways (Syria) -- The Virgin Mary and the goats (Palestine) -- The Virgin Mary and the plowmen (Palestine) -- Tests of friendship (Syria) -- The bones of Father Adam (Palestine) -- How Moses died (Syria) -- Four men and one miracle (Saudi Arabia) -- God will provide (Libya). |
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Wily women and clever men : tales of wit and wisdom. A tall tale (Palestine) -- Seven cauldrons bubbling (Lebanon) -- Women's wiles (Syria) -- The judgments of the qadi (Egypt) -- The talking turkeys (Syria) -- The weaver's dream (Iraq) -- The cure (Syria) -- When twice as many is half the trouble (Palestine) -- The gown in the bathhouse (Egypt) -- A lion the color of yellow silk (Iraq) -- The sultan's camp follower (Iraq) -- The woman whose husband went to Mecca (Palestine) -- The three Mohammads (Tunisia) -- The chain of truth (Iraq) -- Idle Ahmad (Iraq) -- The clever minister's daughter (Syria) -- The rose in the chest (Iraq) -- The old woman and the devil (Palestine) -- The girl outwits three men (Palestine) -- The boy who heard the dew when it fell (Morocco) -- When one man has two wives (Syria) -- Just deserts (Tunisia) -- The simple wife (Palestine) -- The woman called Rice Pudding (Palestine) -- She who understood best (Palestine). |
| Subject |
Tales -- Arab countries.
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| Added Author |
Bushnaq, Inea.
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| ISBN |
0394501047 |
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9780394501048 |
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0394751795 (paperback) |
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9780394751795 (paperback) |
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