The Adventures of Sayf ben Dhi Yazan : an Arab folk epic

The military adventures of a king of Yemen as he battles monsters, ghosts and Ethiopian Christians, and his romantic interlude in the City of Maidens. An Arabic folk tale of unknown authorship, written in prose and poetry.
The selections in this volume cover the first 500 pages of the authorized 4-volume Arabic ed. published in Cairo by Maktabat al-Jumhūrīyah with no publication date.