The Book of Misers

al-Bukhala

al-Jahiz · الجاحظ

Al-Jahiz’s book of misers in the original Arabic, complete in 308 pages: anecdotes, letters and speeches by and about the mean, from the most celebrated prose stylist of the Abbasid age. It is the earliest sustained portrait of ordinary urban life in Basra and Baghdad that survives. Text from Arabic Wikisource.

Set in Scheherazade New at 13.5pt over 1.9 leading, bound right-to-left. The book is built of reported speech — one miser quoted at length, then the next — and the setting keeps those voices separated on the page rather than run together.

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Language: Arabic
Format: 6 × 9 in — US Trade
Binding: Hardcover · Case wrap
Extent: 308 pages
Paper: 60# cream, uncoated
Cover: Matte
Typeface: Scheherazade New

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