Description: The ?ilyat al-kuram?', literally "The Ornament of the Magnanimous", was compiled in Cairo and Medina in the ninth/fifteenth century. This study of the work and its author is the first reliable critical edition of the Arabic text. An annotated English translation and glossaries make the text accessible to non-specialists.
Brief description: Antonella Ghersetti (PhD, University of Florence) is professor of Arabic Language and Literature at Ca' Foscari University in Venice, Italy.