The mediaeval Islamic underworld
Subtitle: the Banū Sāsān in Arabic society and literature
By: by Clifford Edmund Bosworth.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Subjects: Abū Dulaf Misʻar ibn al-Muhalhil, 10th cent; Ḥillī, Ṣafī al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Sarāyā, b. 1278; Beggars -- Islamic Empire; Swindlers and swindling -- Islamic Empire; Civilization, Islamic; Rogues and vagabonds
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The Banū Sāsān in Arabic life and lore.; title: pt. 2. The Arabic jargon texts: the Qaṣīda sāsāniyyas of Abū Dulaf and Ṣafī d-Dīn.