Abdul Alhazred is the author (or perhaps Patchy under a pseudonyme!), while the work itself is called Kitab al-Azif.
LucidDream said:
Fashuli al-Nulaj, the Wise Woman of Baghdad.
And whenever I get smug and think I'm cultured, someone makes a reference to something I don't know and I feel humbled again. Life is a neverending spiral of learning new things and realizing you really don't know crap about anything.