Reading Arabic Fictional Texts

This book contains a diverse collection of stories, narratives, anecdotes, and ancient Arabic narrative texts: Qur’anic stories, the stories of the prophets, the anecdotes of Sufism and the wise, love stories, stories such as Lily and Majnoon which were later translated into Persian, stories such as Kelileh Demneh which has been translated from Persian into Arabic, the tales of the subtle and the shrewd, the tales of the Tofailians(parasites), the tales of the proverbs, the tales that show some Arabic customs and ethics (such as the tales about generosity and loyalty). The aim is to acquaint students with Arabic fiction and to pay attention to the Arabic-Persian literary relations in the field of fiction literature.