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

Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded : : Volume Two / / Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī; ed. by Humphrey Davies.

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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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VerfasserIn:
al-Shirbīnī, Yūsuf,
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 ; 57
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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
  • Part Two
  • An Account of the Lineage of the Poet and Its Components
  • The Ode of Abū Shādūf with Commentary
  • Some Miscellaneous Anecdotes with Which We Conclude the Book
  • Let Us Conclude This Book with Verses from the Sea of Inanities
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Further Reading
  • Index
  • About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
  • About the Typefaces
  • Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature
  • About the Editor–Translator

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