Tales from the Bazaars

Tales From the Bazaars is a treasury of traditional folklore by Amina Shah, herself widely regarded as one as one of the greatest storytellers of the twentieth century. The collection is compiled from many of Amina’s favourite folktales, gathered from Turkey and Arabia, Persia, Afghanistan and India, from Europe and the Americas. The scope of the stories presented is quite extraordinary in itself, and is all the more unusual in that each tale in the book was collected by Amina from a verbal source. Among the stories are The Tale of Hatim Tai; The King, the Dog and the Golden Bowl; The Shah’s Ring and The Magic Talisman.