Classical Arabic stories: an anthology

Salma Khadra Jayyusi's book chooses from an impressive corpus, including excerpts from six seminal works: Ibn Tufail's novel, 'Hayy ibn Yaqzan'; Ibn al-Muqaffa's 'Kalila wa Dimna'; 'The Misers of al-Jahiz'; The Brethren of Purity's 'The Protest of Animals Against Man'; 'Al-Maqamat' (The Assemblies), and the romance, 'Sayf Bin Dhi Yazan'.