Description |
1 online resource |
Series |
Library of Arabic literature |
Contents |
Letter from the General Editor; Introduction; Note on the Text; Notes to the Introduction; Risible Rhymes; Preamble; The Author Declares His Intention to Decode a Sampling of Rural Verse and to Follow This with a Sampling of Hints, Wrangles, and Riddles; A Sampling of the Verse of the Rural Rank and File; A Sampling of Hints and Riddles; A Wrangle over a Line by al-Mutanabbī; The Author Mentions the Date of Composition of the Work and Apologizes for Its Brevity; Notes; Glossary of Names and Untranslated Terms; Bibliography; Index; About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute; About this E-book |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
In English and Arabic on facing pages |
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Subject |
Arabic poetry -- Egypt -- History and criticism -- Early works to 1800
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Arabic poetry -- 1258-1800 -- History and criticism -- Early works to 1800
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Country life in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
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Arabic poetry
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Country life in literature
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SUBJECT |
Egypt -- In literature
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Subject |
Egypt
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Early works
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman), editor, translator
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Sanhūrī, Muḥammad bin Maḥfūẓ, active 1648,
author. Muḍḥik dhawī al-dhawq wa-al-niẓām fī ḥall shadharah min kalām ahl al-rīf al-ʻawāmm. English
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Sanhūrī, Muḥammad bin Maḥfūẓ, active 1648,
author. Muḍḥik dhawī al-dhawq wa-al-niẓām fī ḥall shadharah min kalām ahl al-rīf al-ʻawāmm.
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LC no. |
2016030154 |
ISBN |
9781479890781 |
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1479890782 |
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9781479857524 |
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1479857521 |
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