Hikayat Abi Al-Qasim
Subtitle: A Literary Banquet
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781474402316
Subjects: Arabic literature, history and criticism; Parasitism
Description: This study compares 'Ḥikāyat', a mysterious text surviving in a single manuscript, to other comical banquet texts and party-crashing characters, especially from ancient Greece and Rome.