Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded : : Volume One / / Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī; ed. by Humphrey Davies.
Unique in pre-twentieth-century Arabic literature for taking the countryside as its central theme, Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī’s Brains Confounded combines a mordant satire on seventeenth-century Egyptian rural society with a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of Arabic Literature ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Letter from the General Editor
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- Notes to the Introduction
- Part One
- 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 Practices
- Urjūzah Summarizing Part One
- Notes
- Index
- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
- About the Typefaces
- Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature
- About the Editor–Translator