Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded : Volume One /

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Autor principal: Shirbīnī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad, active 1665-1687 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman) (Editor , Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Arabic
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Villages.
Social problems in literature.
Satire, Arabic.
Rural conditions.
Arabic literature.
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 > Rural conditions > Early works to 1800.
Early works.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: PART ONE
  • The Author Describes the Ode of Abu Shaduf
  • 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 People
  • Accounts 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 Guilty
  • The 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 Barakat: "Barakat 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 Tunes
  • Verses by al-Amin
  • Verses by Murjan al-Habashi
  • Verses by a Turkish Judge
  • Verses by Shaykh Muhammad al-Raziqi
  • Elegy by a Certain Dim-Witted Poet to the Emir Ibn al-Khawaja Mustafa
  • A Chronogram
  • An Account of Their Ignorant Dervishes and of Their Ignorant and Misguided Practices
  • The Practices of the Khawamis Sect
  • Anecdotes Showing the Ignorance of Country Dervishes
  • More Anecdotes Showing the Beliefs and Practices of Heretical Dervishes
  • Urjuzah Summarizing Part One.

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