Folk Traditions of the Arab World A Guide to Motif Classification

"This is an essential reference tool for all folklore and Arabic literature collections." -- Choice"Hasan El-Shamy's work on folklore is absolutely outstanding, a monumental piece of scholarship." -- Digest of Middle East Studies"... reflects superior scholarship. Preparing a motif-index of folk literature requires a special kind of scholar with depth in a cultural area and breadth in international folklore studies... El-Shamy, I am pleased to report, is one of them." -- Ronald BakerThis two-volume guide will be an important research tool in comparative folklore studies as well as in Arabic studies.El-Shamy, Hasan M. is the author of 'Folk Traditions of the Arab World A Guide to Motif Classification' with ISBN 9780253352019 and ISBN 0253352010.