Routledge Revivals: More Tales from the Masnavi (1963)

A. J. Arberry

Introduction; The incontinent lover, on the sin of arrogance; The preacher who prayed for sinners; The Sufi who answered his unfaithful wife obliquely; The tanner who fainted, on suiting the cure to the ailment; Othman in the pulpit; Solomon and the Queen of Sheba; The clay-eater and the druggist; The dervish’s dream; The conversion of Ibrahim ibn Adham; The man who dropped walnuts into a stream; The infant Muhammad lost and found; The Sufi in the orchard; The king and his slave, on the proper answer for fools; The scholar and the thief; The false panegyrist; The Prophet and the young man of Hudhail; Bayazid and his disciples; The three fishes; The fowler and the bird; Pharaoh and Moses; Ali and the child, on congeneity; Muhammad and the Bedouin chiefs; The end of the story of Moses and Pharaoh; The king, the boon-companion and the courtier; Moses questions God’s purpose; The prince and the Witch of Kabul; The drought and the laughing ascetic; The mule and the camel; The Egyptian and the Israelite; The woman and the pear-tree; The descent and ascent of Man; Alexander the Great and Mount Qaf; The pen and the ants; The four birds: the duck; The greedy unbeliever; The four birds: the peacock; The Bedouin and his dog; The sage and the peacock; The four birds: the crow; The gazelle and the asses; The four birds: the cock; The man who claimed to be a prophet; The faithful lover; The mystic and the puppies; The creation of Adam; The simpleton and his answer; King Mahmud and Ayaz; Nasuh’s repentance; The ass and the Arab horses; The fox and the ass; The ascetic who trusted in God; The man who feared to be taken for an ass; Shaikh Sar-razi of Ghazna; The parable of the anxious cow; The monk who searched for a man; The thief in the orchard; The bold dervish of Herat; Majnun and Laila’s beauty; The muezzin with the evil voice; The greedy wife and the cat; The merry prince and the Christian ascetic; Dalqak and the King of Tirmidh; The wife and the guest; The girl who married beneath her; The Sufi who was a coward; The story of ‘Iyadi; The caliph and the general; The bird and the fowler; The watchman who fell asleep; The Turk and the minstrel; The poet and the Shi’ites of Aleppo; The midnight drummer; The devotion of Bilal; How Abu Bakr bought Bilal from his Jewish master; The amir and the refractory horse; Muhammad visits Hilal; The disappointed beggar; The hag who hankered for a husband; Sultan Mahmud and the Indian boy; The sick man, the Sufi and the Cadi; The Turk and the tailor; The Sufi and the tailor; The Sufi and the priest; The poor man and his nagging wife; The answer to the pauper’s prayer; Shaikh Abu ‘l-Husain and his wife; The camel, the ox and the ram; The Jew, the Christian and the Muslim; How Dalqak rode to town in haste; The mouse and the frog; King Mahmud and the thieves; ‘Abd al-Ghauth and the Peris; Ja’far attacks a fortress single-handed; The dervish debtor and the Inspector of Tabriz; The ruler of Bukhara and the jurist beggar; The drunken king and the reluctant jurist; The man who sought for treasure; Goha, his wife and the cadi; God speaks with the Angel of Death; The child and the bogy; Notes.