Folk Traditions Of The Arab World 2 Volumes

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 Baker

This two-volume guide will be an important research tool in comparative folklore studies as well as in Arabic studies.