A Literary History of the Arabs

A LITERARY HISTORY OF THE ARABS BY REYNOLD A. NICHOLSON Seal

Transcriber's note:
Spelling of the Arabic names is different in the body of the text, in the References and in the Index, these have been left as shown in the original text. Page references in the Index are sometimes related to the footnotes in these pages which can be found using the footnote links in these pages, not necessarily in the page itself. Page titles are displayed when the mouse hovers over page numbers.

Litigants before a Judge (British Museum Or. 1200)

Litigants before a Judge

From an Arabic manuscript in the British Museum (Or. 1200; No. 1007 in Rieu's Arabic Supplement), dated A.H. 654 = A.D. 1256, which contains the MaqÁmȧt of ḤarÌrÌ illustrated by 81 miniatures in colours. This one represents a scene in the 8th MaqÁma: AbÚ Zayd and his son appearing before the Cadi of Ma‘arratu ’l-Nu’mÁn. The figure on the left is ḤÁrith b. HammÁm, whom ḤarÌrÌ puts forward as the relater of AbÚ Zayd's adventures.

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