مقامات الحريري
Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī
Fifty short episodes written to show off everything Arabic can do — rare words, double meanings, whole passages that read the same in both directions. The traditional test of whether you truly have the language.
The text
Public domain — read it at a library
Arabic Wikisource — the maqāmāt, transcribed one by one
Al-Ḥarīrī died in 516 AH. A transcription of a public-domain text carries no new copyright of its own.
In English — ours
Not yet. We translate rather than reprint, so the English for this book begins the day its first lesson is taught.
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Lessons
Not written yet. This book is on the map so you can see where it sits in the course, not because it is ready to study here.