First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.
Sunday, March 26, 2017
LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATURE # 10
Ibn al-Sa'I, Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad(Library of Arabic Literature), edited by Shawkat M. Toorawa, translated by The Editors of the Library of Arabic Literature, introduction by Julia Bray, & foreword by Marina Warner (New York & London: NYU Press, 2015).