Folktales From Iraq
Contributors: C. G. Campbell (Editor); John Buckland Wright (Illustrator)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: March 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780812219135
Subjects: Iraq; Folklore; Social Science; Sociology; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Arabs; Folklore & Mythology; Tales
First sentence: NOW there was a Sultan from amongst the Sultans who ruled Iraq before the days of the Ottomans, and his name was Hajji Ali.
Description: A collection of sixteen Arabic stories from the Shia tribes of southern Iraq gathered in the late 1940s.