Hadith Bayad wa Riyad

Hadith Bayad wa Riyad

Hadith Bayāḍ wa Riyāḍ (Arabic,حديث بياض ورياض Translated "The Story of Bayad and Riyad") or Qissat Bayad wa Riyad is a 13th-century Arabic love story. The main characters of the tale are Bayad, a merchant's son and a foreigner from Damascus, and Riyad, a well educated girl in the court of an unnamed Hajib of Al-Andalus (vizier or minister) which is referd to as the lady.

The Hadith Bayad wa Riyad manuscript is believed to be the only illustrated manuscript known to have survived from more than eight centuries of Muslim and Arab presence in Spain.

ee also

*Arabic epic literature.
*Arabic literature

Further reading

* [http://www.geocities.com/anahita_whitehorse/Bayad-wa-Riyad.html] .
*Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture in the Mediterranean: Hadith Bayad Wa Riyad, by Robinson, Cynthia, ISBN: 97804153224.


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