Editing The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim (section)

{{Short description|Short story by Jorge Luis Borges}}
{{Infobox short story | <!-- See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels]] or [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Books]] -->
| name          = The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim
| title_orig    = El acercamiento a Almotásim
| translator    = Anthony Bonner
| author        = [[Jorge Luis Borges]]
| country       = [[Argentina]]
| language      = [[Spanish language|Spanish]]
| series        = 
| genre         = [[Metafictional]] [[short story]]
| published_in  = ''[[Historia de la eternidad]]'' (1936)<br>''[[Ficciones]]'' (1944)
| publisher     = 
| media_type    = Print
| pub_date      = 1936
| english_pub_date = 1962
| preceded_by   = 
| followed_by   = 
}}

"'''The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim'''" (original [[Spanish language|Spanish]] title: "El acercamiento a Almotásim") is a [[fantasy]] [[short story]] written in 1935 by [[Argentina|Argentine]] writer [[Jorge Luis Borges]].  In his autobiographical essay, Borges wrote about "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim", "it now seems to me to foreshadow and even to set the pattern for those tales that were somehow awaiting me, and upon which my reputation as a storyteller was to be based."<ref name = Borges>{{cite book|last=Alazraki|first=Jaime|title=Critical Essays on Jorge Luis Borges|year=1987|publisher=G. K. Hall & Co.|isbn=0-8161-8829-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/criticalessayson00alaz/page/43 43]|url=https://archive.org/details/criticalessayson00alaz/page/43}}</ref>