Leg over Leg: Volumes Three and Four

TABLE SHOWING THE MISTAKES IN THE PROBATIVE VERSES IN THE MAQĀMĀT OF AL-ḤARĪRĪ WHICH APPEARED IN A SECOND EDITION, WITH CORRECTIONS BY THE TWO EMINENT SHAYKHS REINAUD AND DERENBOURG

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FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF DE

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THE MISTAKES IN THE COMMENTARY ITSELF ARE TOO NUMEROUS TO COUNT

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and the two shaykhs keep on in the same vein to the end of the maqāmāt. If one were to investigate every example of error and misspelling in both the text and the commentary, it would amount to a very great quantity, so let what I provide here be sufficient testimony as to the scholarship of the two aforementioned persons and give the lie to their friend’s claim. The selections of Monsieur Caussin de Perceval from Qiṣṣat ʿAntar (The Story of ʿAntar),⁷⁶⁴ his writings on the speech of the people of Aleppo, and the transcriptions by others of silly stories in lame language are not worth the time one would waste on them, for they are all bad.

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