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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—offering anecdotes testifying to the ign...
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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 |
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