Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded : Volume Two /
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2016.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.