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Author Sanhūrī, Muḥammad bin Maḥfūẓ, active 1648, author.

Title Risible rhymes : or, The book to bring a smile to the lips of devotees of taste and proper style through the decoding of a sampling of the verse of the rural rank and file / by God's humble slave, Muhammad ibn Mafu a-Sanhuri ; edited and translated by Humphrey Davies
Published New York : New York University Press, 2016

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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
Arabic poetry -- 1258-1800 -- History and criticism -- Early works to 1800
Country life in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
Arabic poetry
Country life in literature
SUBJECT Egypt -- In literature
Subject Egypt
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Early works
Form Electronic book
Author Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman), editor, translator
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
Sanhūrī, Muḥammad bin Maḥfūẓ, active 1648, author. Muḍḥik dhawī al-dhawq wa-al-niẓām fī ḥall shadharah min kalām ahl al-rīf al-ʻawāmm.
LC no. 2016030154
ISBN 9781479890781
1479890782
9781479857524
1479857521
Other Titles Book to bring a smile to the lips of devotees of taste and proper style through the decoding of a sampling of the verse of the rural rank and file