Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded : : Volume Two / / 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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