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A Tale of Four Dervishes
Mir Amman
- Form
- Form Short Story Collection
- Year
- Year 1803
- Originally in
- Originally in Urdu
- Pages
- Pages 200
In a burial ground outside the city, four ruined men build a fire and agree to tell each other how they came to be there, and the king, Azad Bakht, sleepless because no son will ever be born to him, stops in the dark to listen. Their stories are of love that beggared them: a merchant's son ruined for a princess of Damascus, jinn, sorcery , voyages that end nowhere near where they set out, each tale opening inside the last like a door.
O my friends, the place of my birth, and the country of my forefathers, is the land of Yaman
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