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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis exemplary edition is made all the more appetizing through the fluidity of Bray’s translation… This eminently readable and scholarly volume permits English readers to explore Muslim outlooks on life via remarkable stories—witty, terrifying, edifying and sometimes surreal—in which the limits of our human control over what God/Fate has in store for us are made very clear. * Times Literary Supplement *
The translation is dazzling... There are delights here for the specialist no less than for the reader with no Arabic. Al-Tanūkhī has found his translator. One cannot read this book without a sense of exhilaration and gratitude. * Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā *
With this volume of stories in translation, the Library of Arabic Literature, a project supported by the New York University Abu Dhabi Institute, adds a major achievement to its treasures of translated and edited Arabic texts... Bray combines meticulous scholarly method with original approaches to translation. * Speculum *
