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Tales -- Arab countries

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Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

کتاب منتخبات من الکتب المختلفة العربية Kitāb muntakhabāt min al-kutub al-mukhtalifah al-‘Arabiyyah, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 526
Scope and Contents Selections of Arabic Writings. The content is as follows (according to the pagination in the Ms):1) A selection of stories and histories (p. 1-145)2) A selection of chapters from the Qurʼān (p. 146-212)3) The first Mu‘allaqah of the famous pre-Islamic Arabic poems al-Mu‘allaqāt al-Sab‘ li Imruʼ al-Qays (p. 213-226)4) A collection of Aghāni, songs or poems...
Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

مجنون لیلی العامریه Majnūn Laylá al-'Āmiriyyah, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 57
Scope and Contents

A much celebrated love story, it is in prose, probably written by Ḥabīb b. Rabboh; the numerous verses with which the composition is interspersed are attributed to Majnūn himself (as the story's eponymous hero is named after having fallen in love with Laylá).

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia