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The Case of the Animals Versus Man Before the King of the Jinn: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistle 22 by

emeraldisle's review

2.0

I had to read this book for my Humans, Animals, & Nature class. I had no idea what to expect with this book & before taking this class I had no idea this book even existed. Basically, the animals decided to take the humans to trial before the King of the Jinn (with the jinn as the jury) because they were tired of being mistreated by the humans. This trial takes several days and the animals make a very good case for themselves. Now, this book is definitely thought provoking. It’s very open ended and most of the time the animals and the humans are just repeating themselves, just saying things slightly differently each time. Because of all the repetition, I had just about no motivation to read or finish the book but I had to for a grade and I definitely will not be picking up this book again for the foreseeable future.