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