Tales of the Parrot
Zia al-din Nakhsabi's Persian Tuti Namah translated and adapted
into arabic by Abdelwahab Aloub.
A collection of stories originally written in
Sanskrit. The stories are
narrated to a woman by her pet parrot, at the rate of one story
every night, in order to dissuade her from going out to meet her
lover when her husband is away..
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Further
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Tales of the Parrot
Nabil Soliman
Shuka Saptati a
history of the stories
The Parrot in the Tuti
Namah