Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded : Volume One / Volume one / 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--off...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Shirbīnī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad, active 1665-1687 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Rakhā, Yūsuf (writer of foreword.), Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman) (Editor , Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Arabic
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Villages.
Social problems in literature.
Satire, Arabic.
Rural conditions.
Arabic literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
Arabic literature > Egypt > Early works to 1800.
Satire, Arabic > Egypt > Early works to 1800.
Social problems in literature > Early works to 1800.
Villages > Egypt > Early works to 1800.
Egypt.
Egypt > Rural conditions > Early works to 1800.
Early works.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Letter from the General Editor; About this Paperback; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Note on the Text; Notes to the Introduction; Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded, Part One; The Author Describes the Ode of Abū Shādūf; The Author Embarks on a Description of the Common Country Folk; An Account of a Few of Their Names, Nicknames, and Kunyahs; Their Children; Their Women during Intercourse; Their Weddings; An Account of Their Escapades; Anecdotes Showing that a Man Cannot Escape His Inborn Nature
  • Anecdotes Showing the Stupidity of Country PeopleAccounts of What Happened to Peasants Who Went to the City; The Peasant Who Attended the Friday Prayer in a Village by the River; The Tale of the Three Whores of Cairo; Anecdotes Concerning Country People Who Went to the City and Were Overtaken by the Need to Relieve Themselves, Etc.; The Tale of the Champions of Discourtesy of Cairo and Damascus; The Tale of the Boors of Cairo and Damascus; More Anecdotes Illustrating the Stupidity of Country People; Anecdotes about Country People Who Voided Their Prayers
  • An Account of Their Pastors and of the Compounded Ignorance, Imbecility, and Injuries to Religion and the Like of Which They Are GuiltyThe Tale of the Persian Scholar; Sermons by Country Pastors; Further Anecdotes Showing the Ignorance of Country Pastors; Funayn's Letter and Another Missive; An Account of Their Poets and of Their Idiocies and Inanities; The First of Their Verses: "My shirt kept trailing behind the plow"; The Second of Their Verses: "And I said to her, 'Piss on me and spray!'"; The Verse of Shaykh Barakāt: "Barakāt was passin' by."
  • The Third of Their Verses: "By God, by God, the Moighty, the Omnipotent"The Fourth of Their Verses: "The soot of my paternal cousin's oven is as black as your kohl marks"; The Fifth of Their Verses: "I asked after the beloved. They said, 'He skedaddled from the shack!'"; The Sixth of Their Verses: "The rattle staff of our mill makes a sound like your anklets"; The Seventh of Their Verses: "I saw my beloved with a plaited whip driving oxen."
  • 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 TunesVerses by al-Amīn; Verses by Murjān al-Ḥabashī; Verses by a Turkish Judge; Verses by Shaykh Muḥammad al-Rāziqī; Elegy by a Certain Dim-Witted Poet to the Emir Ibn al-Khawājā Muṣṭafā; A Chronogram; An Account of Their Ignorant Dervishes and of Their Ignorant and Misguided Practices; The Practices of the Khawāmis Sect; Anecdotes Showing the Ignorance of Country Dervishes

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