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Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded : Volume One /
Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the three rural "types"-peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion, and rural dervish-offer...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Library of Arabic Literature ;
18 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Letter from the General Editor
- Contents
- Foreword.
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- Notes to the Introduction
- Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded, Part One
- In the Name of God The Merciful, the Compassionate To Whom We Turn for Help
- The Author Describes the Ode of Abū Shādūf
- The Author Embarks on a Description of the Common Country Folk
- An Account of Their Escapades
- An Account of Their Pastors and of the Compounded Ignorance, Imbecility, and Injuries to Religion and the Like of Which They Are Guilty
- An Account of Their Poets and of Their Idiocies and Inanities
- It Now Behooves Us to Offer a Small Selection of the Verse of Those Who Lay Claim to the Status of Poets but Are in Practice Poltroons, and Who Make Up Rhymes but Are Really Looney Tunes
- An Account of Their Ignorant Dervishes and of Their Ignorant and Misguided Practice
- Urjūzah Summarizing Part One
- Notes
- Index
- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
- About the Translator
- The Library of Arabic Literature