Brains confounded by the ode of Abu Shaduf expounded

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Unique in pre-20th-century Arabic literature for taking the countryside as its central theme, Yusuf al-Shirbini'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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Main Authors: Shirbīnī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad, active 1665-1687 (Author), Shirbīnī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad, active 1665-1687 (Author)
Other Authors: Davies, Humphrey T (Humphrey Taman) (Editor, Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Arabic
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2016
Subjects:
Arabic literature > Egypt > Early works to 1800
Satire, Arabic > Egypt > Early works to 1800
Social problems in literature > Early works to 1800
Villages > Egypt > Early works to 1800
Littérature égyptienne moderne (arabe) > Ouvrages avant 1800
Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature > Ouvrages avant 1800
Villages > Égypte > Ouvrages avant 1800
Arabic literature
Rural conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban
Satire, Arabic
Social problems in literature
Villages
Egypt > Rural conditions > Early works to 1800
Egypt
Electronic books
Early works

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