Brains confounded by the ode of Abu Shaduf expounded /

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 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.
Series:Library of Arabic literature.
Subjects:
Villages > Egypt > Early works to 1800.
Social problems in literature > Early works to 1800.
Satire, Arabic > Egypt > Early works to 1800.
Arabic literature > Egypt > Early works to 1800.
Villages > Égypte > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Littérature égyptienne moderne (arabe) > Ouvrages avant 1800.
HISTORY > Social History.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Middle Eastern.
Arabic literature.
Rural conditions.
Satire, Arabic.
Social problems in literature.
Villages.
Egypt > Rural conditions > Early works to 1800.
Egypt.
Early works.

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