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The hero cycles of Arabic belong to the literary tradition of The Arabian Nights and can be seen as the popular epics of their civilisation. Published in three volumes, the first introduces the background to the cycles, while the second analyses their contents and literary formulae. The epitomes surveyed in the final volume provide further insight into their literary nuances.Lyons, Malcolm C. is the author of 'Arabian Epic Heroic And Oral Story-telling Texts', published 2005 under ISBN 9780521017404 and ISBN 0521017408.
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