Episode 9: Decoding the Preface

The Preface of al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqāmāt opens with a humble supplication for eloquent yet truthful speech before detailing the composition of fifty episodic rhymed-prose tales featuring the clever trickster Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī, defending fictional narrative as a pedagogical tool for moral edification and grammatical refinement rather than deceit. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1SxB... https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Yrl... Article: https://ejournal.unimel.edu.my/index.... http://ejournal.ukm.my/ijwas/article/...