Ḥikāyat Abī al-Qāsim

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.

• AcknowledgementsPart 1Introductiona. Manuscriptb. Authorship and Datingc. Editionsd. Translationse. Summary of Eventsf. Scholarshipg. A Mediterranean TablePart IIChapter 1: A Sampling of the ḤikāyahPart IIIChapter 2: A Microcosm Introduceda. Mimesis or Mannerism?b. Baghdad the Party-Crasherc. Those Camels have PassedPart IVChapter 3: Crashing the TextPart VChapter 4: Mujun is a Crazy GamePart VIChapter 5: The Cosmic Crashera. Abū al-Qāsim as Microcosmb. Abī al-Qāsim as Iblīsc. The Microcosm is a ManPart VIIConclusiona. Bojangles Won’t Danceb. Philemon and BaucisBibliographyIndex