Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-SarūjīMaqmt Ab Zayd al Sarj is a scholarly, Arabic only edition of the celebrated work by al arr, which is also available in English translation from the Library of Arabic Literature as Impostures. Al arr's text consists of fifty stories about the adventures of the itinerant con man and master of persuasion Ab Zayd al Sarj, as told by the equally itinerant and often gullible narrator al rith ibn Hmmam. Al arr was a virtuoso writer of the rhymed prose