Risible Rhymes / / Muḥammad ibn Maḥfūẓ al-Sanhūrī; Humphrey Davies.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter NYUP / FUP eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: al-Sanhūrī, Muḥammad ibn Maḥfūẓ,
• HerausgeberIn: Davies, Humphrey,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Library of Arabic Literature ; 31
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Letter from the General Editor --; Table of Contents --; Introduction --; Note on the Text --; Notes to the Introduction --; Risible Rhymes --; Notes --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute --; About the Typefaces --; Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature --; About the Editor-Translator
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781479890781; 9783110711868
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Muḥammad ibn Maḥfūẓ al-Sanhūrī; Humphrey Davies.

Written in mid-17th centuryEgypt, Risible Rhymesis in part a short, comic disquisition on "rural" verse, mocking thepretensions and absurdities of uneducated poets from Egypt's countryside.The interestin the countryside as a cultural, social, economic, and religious locus inits own right that is hinted at in this work may be unique in pre-twentieth-centuryArabic literature. As such, the work provides a companion piece to its slightlyyounger contemporary, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded by the Ode of AbuShaduf Expounded, which also takes examples of mock-rural poems andsubjects them to grammatical analysis. The overlap between the two texts mayindicate that they both emanate from a common corpus of pseudo-rural verse thatcirculated in Ottoman Egypt.Risible Rhymes also examines various kinds of puzzlepoems-another popular genre of the day-and presents a debate between scholarsover a line of verse by the tenth-century poet al-Mutanabbi. Taken as a whole, RisibleRhymes offers intriguing insight into the critical concerns of mid-OttomanEgypt, showcasing the intense preoccupation with wordplay, grammar, andstylistics that dominated discussions of poetry in al-Sanhuri's day andshedding light on the literature of this understudied era.