El Hariri, (real name AbuMohammedElKasemBenAli), was an Arabic scholar and poet, who lived chiefly at Bassorah in the time of the Abbasside caliphs. He was born in 1054 and died in 1121 or 1123. He is best known by his Mekammat, a collection of tales narrated as incidents in the life of the hero Abu Zeid, a clever impostor who adopts every career in life, and succeeds in all to admiration. Research El Hariri
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