A Masterpiece Of Arab Painting: The 'Schefer' Maqamat Manuscript in Context - Hardcover

The 'Maqamat of al-Hariri' (d.516/122) is one of the best-known works of Arabic literature. Why and how did this impenetrable work of medieval Arabic philology and linguistic acrobatics dressed up as a collection of picaresque tales, become the vehicle for such extraordinarily lively, life-like and technically competent paintings? This book explores this question.