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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MDPI AG
2020-08-01
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/8/412 |