Types of the Folktale in the Arab World: A Demographically Oriented Tale-Type Index/Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt

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Types of the Folktale in the Arab World: A Demographically Oriented Tale-Type Index. By Hasan M. Fl-Shamy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. xxvii + 1,255 pp.

Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt. Edited by Gaston Maspero. Introduction by Hasan Fl-Shamy. ABC-CLIO Classic Folk and Fairy Tales. Santa Barbara: ABCCLIO, 2002. cliv+275pp.

Once in a blue moon, a reviewer is privileged to receive for evaluation a work that in its sheer erudition and comprehensiveness is clearly destined immediately to become the major source text in its field. The name of Hasan ElShamy is, of course, already ...

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