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

Written in mid-seventeenth-century Egypt, Risible Rhymes is in part a short, comic disquisition on “rural” verse, mocking the pretensions and absurdities of uneducated poets from Egypt’s countryside.The interest in the countryside as a cultural, social, economic, and religious locus in its own right...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Library of Arabic Literature ; 31
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