The book of charlatans = Kitāb al-Mukhtār fī kashf al-asrār / Jamāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī ; edited by Manuela Dengler ; translated by Humphrey Davies ; foreword by S. A. Chakraborty ; volume editor, Maurice A. Pomerantz.

"A comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as practiced in the thirteenth century in the cities of the Middle East, especially in Syria and Egypt"--

Bibliographic Details

Online Access:	Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author:	Jawbarī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar, active 1216-1222 (Author)
Other Authors:	Dengler, Manuela (Editor), Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman) (Translator), Chakraborty, S. A. (author of foreword.), Pomerantz, Maurice A. (Editor)
Other title:	Mukhtār fī kashf al-asrār wa-hatk al-astār. English Kitāb al-Mukhtār fī kashf al-asrār. Mukhtār fī kashf al-asrār.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English Arabic
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2020]
Series:	Library of Arabic literature.
Subjects:	Swindlers and swindling > Islamic Empire. Quacks and quackery > Islamic Empire. Impostors and imposture > Islamic Empire. Impostors and imposture. Quacks and quackery. Swindlers and swindling. Islamic Empire.