The Adventures of Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan
Subtitle: An Arab Folk Epic (Prota Book)
Contributors: Harry Norris (Editor); Lena Jayyusi (Editor, Translator)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: July 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780253330345
Subjects: Poetry texts & anthologies; Arabic Literature; Oral And Folk Literature; Social Science; Sociology; Arabic; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; Middle East; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Folklore & Mythology; Middle East - General
First sentence: The siras (Ar. plural siyar), Arabic for "folk-epic," "geste," or "romance," were composed in Middle Arabic during the Mamluk period, that is some time between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries.