Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani's maqamat

Author: Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani Classification: Literature and Poetry Number of pages: 288 pages Overview: The art of maqama is considered one of the most delicate and most exciting arts; it is an ancient Arab art in which the Arabs displayed their linguistic and rhetorical prowess, decorated it with embellishments of saj' and shaped it in the form of a short story that is adorned with rhetorical embellishments and includes a moral or a joke. The maqamat of Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani are well known, and their fame has reached the horizons; he is the pioneer of this art, and the most creative in writing about it. This book combines literature, humor, story, and imagination that leave us only to soar in a world rarely entered by others.