Title: Hikayat Abi Al-Qasim
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.
Subjects: Arabic literature, history and criticism, Parasitism, Parasitism (Social sciences) in literature, Arabic literature, History and criticism, Dinners and dining in literature