seuyoty was one of the most celebrated medieval authors in arabic literature and during a literary period known as mamlooki era. although anecdote (magama) is a literary type which is written like a story and is based on the beggarliness and trickery of the first character of the story, seuyoty’s anecdotes (maqaamas) are different from the anecdotes of his predecessors. seuyoty’s magamas are no...