Suffering the Sons of Eve: Animal Ethics in al-Maʿarrī’s <i>Epistle of the Horse and the Mule</i>

In the year 1021 CE, blind author and skeptic Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (d. 1057 CE) wrote Risālat al-ṣāhil wa-l-shāḥij (The Epistle of the Horse and the Mule), a winding prose work populated by animal characters who talk about poetry, grammar, riddles, and Syrian society on the eve of the crusades. Tr...

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Main Author: Kevin Blankinship
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-08-01
Series:Religions
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/8/412