A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard is a collection of short fiction by Paul Bowles published by City Lights Books in 1962.

[2] The four stories that comprise the volume have plots and themes that involve kif, a cannabis derivative used among the Moghrebi people of Morocco.

[3] A Friend of the World He of the Assembly The Story of Laheen and Idir The Wind at Beni Midar “A pipe of kif before breakfast gives a man the strength of a hundred camels in the courtyard.”—Moghrebi Proverb[4] The publication of A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard originated in a visit by poet Allen Ginsberg with Bowles who was a resident of Tangiers in the early 1960s.

[7]Literary critic Robert Kirsch believed that the collection of short stories, which he described as being "built on the strange vocabulary of drugs and hallucinations", was among the best writing that Bowles had produced.

[8] Reviewer George Lea, writing for the San Francisco Examiner in 1962, considered the stories to be "full of event, scheme, surprised and humor", suggesting that Bowles deserved celebration.