Gems of Arabic literature

Brief Contents:
Section I. On Fables.
• The Fire-Fly and the Monkeys.
• The Three Fishes.
• A Merchant and the person with whom his property was deposited.
• The Cock and the Hawk.
• The Sand-grouse and the Crow.
• The Lad and the Fox.
• The Sparrow and the Snare.
• The Dove, the Fox, and the Heron.
• The Horse and the Boar.
• The Fable of the Birds, the Wild Beasts, and the Man.
• The Story of the Ringdove, the Rat, the Deer and the Crow.

Section II. Anecdotes and Narratives.
• Ammarāh bin Hamzah and King Al-Mansūr.
• Al-Mu’atasam and the Ass.
• Qais bin Sa’ad, and the nomad Arab.
• Hātim of the tribe of Tāi and the Greek Emperor.
• Ka’ab and the Namiri.
• Sultan Saladin and the woman.
• Qais the son of ‘Āsim and his daughter.
• The Greek Emperor and the Arabs.
• Al-Mansūr and a man of his retinue.
• Abū-Dalamāh and As-Saffāh.
• Darwās the son of Habib and Hashshām.
• Al-Wāqidi and his two friends.
• The story of Al-Māmūn.
• An No’man the son of Al-Mandzar and Hanzhala of the tribe of Tai.
• ‘Umar son of Al-Khattāb and the old woman.
• Ibrāhim, the son of Sulaimān the son of Abdul Malik and the generous man.
• Al-‘Abbās, Head of the Body Guard of Al-Māmūn and the man of Damascus.
• Hārūn-ar-Rashid and the man of Damascus.
• Al-Māmūn and Būran.
• Hunting and the Chasing.
• The Conquest of Andalusia ie. (Spain).

Section III.
• The Ebony Horse.

Section IV.
• The Travels of Ibn Batūta to China, and the hardships he suffered in captivity.
• An Account of the Maldive Islands, by Ibn-Batūta.
• An Account of the second voyage of Sindabad the sailor.
• An Account of the third voyage.
• An Account of the fifth voyage.
• The travels of Ibn Jubair in the island of Sicily (in the year 581 A. H. = 1185 A. D.)
• A description of Syria by Abil Fida.

Section V.
• Exract from the travels of Sādiq Pasha to the Great Desert of Africa.
• Extract from Kitāb-ul-Wāsitah, a description of Malta: and from Kashful-Mukhabba, an account of European arts and sciences by Ahmed Faris Effendi, the editor of Al-Jawāib.
• Climate of Malta and its places of recreation.
• Description of Valetta, the capital of Malta.
• Customs, conditions, morals and manners of the Maltese.
• Extract from Kashful-Mukhabba an account of European culture.
• A description of Paris.
• An account of London