Arabic Tales
In the Arabic context known by generosity, which was a prized and appreciated quality, stories of the Arabs criticize, with a light irony, avarice.
Arabic storytellers, in Stories of misers, aim for leisure and dream, putting forward features of an amusing personality, without offending or stigmatizing. However, on the contrary, these misers enjoy rather empathy and pity, the ultimate aim is the amusement of the reader while preserving the status of the miser.
One of the specificities of the Arab Anecdote, is a relation of spontaneity, without psychoanalysis of the person, a lenient text reflecting the desire to let all take part in pleasure and humor.
The avarice is indeed a nonacceptable quality, but the great author comically describes this quality, to sympathize with the personality, inviting it to correct his behavior and to come back to the group.
Arab anecdotes of misers were popular among people, and were an amusing subject of writers, especially when anecdote joins together the personality of the miser and that of the greedy one; the scene becomes a conflict between the two; while one declines, the other wishes, creating situations causing rapture and laughter.
It's an Arab literary kind which had its place beside the other kinds, poetry, speeches, and letters… and had itsgreat authors on avarice and misers since Al-Asmaï, Ibn Qutayba, Al-Jahiz, Abu Hayyan Al-Tawhidi, and many others.
We will find in this collection of 'Anecdotes of the misers', from an important book, or rather a rich encyclopedia of the Arab-Islamic heritage of stories and accounts of the Islamic era, itself having inspired by the old works-sources of the great authors referred to above.
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