Brains confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf expounded. Volume one /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shirbīnī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad, active 1665-1687 (Author)
Other Authors: Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman) (Editor, Translator), Rakhā, Yūsuf (writer of foreword.), Montgomery, James E. (James Edward), 1962- (Editor), Gelder, G. J. H. van (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Arabic
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Series:Library of Arabic literature.
Subjects:
Villages > Egypt > Early works to 1800.
Social problems in literature > Early works to 1800.
Satire, Arabic > Egypt > Early works to 1800.
Arabic literature > Egypt > Early works to 1800.
Villages > Égypte > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Littérature égyptienne moderne (arabe) > Ouvrages avant 1800.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
Arabic literature.
Rural conditions.
Satire, Arabic.
Social problems in literature.
Villages.
Egypt > Rural conditions > Early works to 1800.
Egypt.
Early works.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Letter from the General Editor
  • Contents
  • Foreword.
  • Introduction
  • Note on the Text
  • Notes to the Introduction
  • 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

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