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The book of charlatans = Kitāb al-Mukhtār fī kashf al-asrār by Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī (editor); Manuela Dengler (editor); Humphrey Davies (editor); S. A. Chakraborty (editor) is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The book of charlatans = Kitāb al-Mukhtār fī kashf al-asrār about?
Uncovering the professional secrets of con artists and swindlers in the medieval Middle East The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as practiced in the thirteenth century in the cities of the Middle East, especially in Syria and Egypt. The author, al-Jawbarī, was well versed in the practices he describes and may well have been a reformed charlatan himself. Divided into thirty chapters, his book reveals the secrets of everyone from “Those Who Claim to be Prophets” t
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī (editor); Manuela Dengler (editor); Humphrey Davies (editor); S. A. Chakraborty (editor)
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781479897636
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Islam, History, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25