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Abū Zayd al-Hilālī: Trickster, Womanizer, Warrior, Shaykh.

Sīrat Banī Hilāl (the Epic of the Banī Hilāl) is rooted in the 10th-century invasion of North Africa by the Banī Hilāl Bedouin tribe after they left their homeland of the Najd in the Arabian Peninsula. Told in a combination of poetry and prose similar to the style of other epic tales such as that of...

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Published in:Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. 49; no. 1/2; pp. 78 - 104
Main Author: Reynolds, Dwight F.
Format: Article
Published: Brill Academic Publishers 2018
Subjects:
Rites & ceremonies
Ritualism
Symbolism
Tale (Literary form)
Social sciences
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