CONTENTS
Introduction
Bibliography and Abbreviations
Translation
Commentary
Glossary
Arabic Text
Critical Apparatus (in Arabic)
Arabic text, based on the Istanbul MS, with translation and commentary of the 9th century writer's Risalat al-Qiyan. The Epistle, which ironically purports to be a defence of the practices of singing-girls and their masters, is a vivid account, touched with humour, of this aspect of the social habits of the richer classes at that time.
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