Brains Confounded By The Ode Of Abu Shaduf Expounded

Author : Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad Shirbīnī
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ISBN 13 : 9789042919129
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū S̲h̲ādūf Expounded written by Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad Shirbīnī and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation provides access to a work of rare importance for the study of the social, economic, and intellectual life of Egypt during a critical but understudied period of its history and is a companion to the critical edition of the Arabic text (OLA 141). Written in 1686 or soon after, the work takes the form of a lengthy introduction to and a commentary on a poem supposedly composed by an Egyptian peasant. This format allows the author both to attack rural society (which he divides into peasants, jurisprudents, and Sufis) and to play for comic effect with the conventions of the then central text-and-commentary genre. A lengthy introduction and numerous notes help to explain the content and significance of the text. The book will interest students of Ottoman Egyptian culture and society, rural-urban relations in Egypt, and Arabic linguistics. It also deserves attention as a work of comic genius of a sort rarely met with in Arabic literature whose mordant humor and vitriolic tone open a window onto the mind and world of an Egyptian scholar of the period.

Author : Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad Shirbīnī
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ISBN 13 : 9781479852949
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Author : Humphrey Taman Davies
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ISBN 13 : 9781479846832
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded written by Humphrey Taman Davies and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad Shirbīnī
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479882348
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book هز القحوف في شرح قصيد ابي شادوف written by Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad Shirbīnī and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tale of the Persian Scholar -- Sermons by Country Pastors -- Further Anecdotes Showing the Ignorance of Country Pastors -- Funayn's Letter and Another Missive -- An Account of Their Poets and of Their Idiocies and Inanities -- The First of Their Verses: "My shirt kept trailing behind the plow"--The Second of Their Verses: "And I said to her, 'Piss on me and spray!'" -- The Verse of Shaykh Barakāt: "Barakāt was passin' by" -- The Third of Their Verses: "By God, by God, the Moighty, the Omnipotent

Author : Yusuf al-Shirbini
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479840211
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded written by Yusuf al-Shirbini and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini’s Brains Confounded pits the “coarse” rural masses against the “refined” urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the three rural “types”—peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion, and rural dervish—offering anecdotes testifying to the ignorance, dirtiness, and criminality of each. In Volume Two, he presents a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day, with a 47-line poem supposedly written by a peasant named Abu Shaduf, who charts the rise and fall of his fortunes. Wielding the scholarly tools of elite literature, al-Shirbini responds to the poem with derision and ridicule, dotting his satire with digressions into love, food, and flatulence. Volume Two of Brains Confounded is followed by Risible Rhymes, a concise text that includes a comic disquisition on “rural” verse, mocking the pretensions of uneducated poets from Egypt’s countryside. Risible Rhymes also examines various kinds of puzzle poems, which were another popular genre of the day, and presents a debate between scholars over a line of verse by the tenth-century poet al-Mutanabbi. Together, Brains Confounded and Risible Rhymes offer intriguing insight into the intellectual concerns of Ottoman Egypt, showcasing the intense preoccupation with wordplay, grammar, and stylistics and shedding light on the literature of the era.

Author : Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad Shirbīnī
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 147983890X
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book هز القحوف في شرح قصيد ابي شادوف written by Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad Shirbīnī and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In Volume One, al-Shirbīnī describes the three rural “types”—peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion and rural dervish—offering numerous anecdotes testifying to the ignorance, dirtiness, illiteracy, lack of proper religious understanding, and criminality of each. He follows it in Volume Two with a 47-line poem supposedly written by a peasant named Abū Shādūf, who charts the rise and fall of his fortunes and bewails, above all, the lack of access to delicious foods to which his poverty has condemned him. Wielding the scholarly tools of elite literature, al-Shirbīnī responds to the poem with derision and ridicule, dotting his satire of the ignorant rustic with numerous digressions into love, food, and flatulence. Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Brains Confounded belongs to an unrecognized genre from an understudied period in Egypt’s Ottoman history, and is a work of outstanding importance for the study of pre-modern colloquial Egyptian Arabic, pitting the “coarse” rural masses against the “refined” and urbane in a contest for cultural and religious primacy, with a heavy emphasis on the writing of verse as a yardstick of social acceptability. A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

Author : Yusuf al-Shirbini
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479829668
Total Pages : 489 pages
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Download or read book Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded, with Risible Rhymes written by Yusuf al-Shirbini and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini’s Brains Confounded pits the “coarse” rural masses against the “refined” urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the three rural “types”—peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion, and rural dervish—offering anecdotes testifying to the ignorance, dirtiness, and criminality of each. In Volume Two, he presents a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day, with a 47-line poem supposedly written by a peasant named Abu Shaduf, who charts the rise and fall of his fortunes. Wielding the scholarly tools of elite literature, al-Shirbini responds to the poem with derision and ridicule, dotting his satire with digressions into love, food, and flatulence. Volume Two of Brains Confounded is followed by Risible Rhymes, a concise text that includes a comic disquisition on “rural” verse, mocking the pretensions of uneducated poets from Egypt’s countryside. Risible Rhymes also examines various kinds of puzzle poems, which were another popular genre of the day, and presents a debate between scholars over a line of verse by the tenth-century poet al-Mutanabbi. Together, Brains Confounded and Risible Rhymes offer intriguing insight into the intellectual concerns of Ottoman Egypt, showcasing the intense preoccupation with wordplay, grammar, and stylistics and shedding light on the literature of the era.

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Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479892386
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded written by and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In Volume One, Al-Shirbini describes the three rural “types”—peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion and rural dervish—offering numerous anecdotes testifying to the ignorance, dirtiness, illiteracy, lack of proper religious understanding, and criminality of each. He follows it in Volume Two with a 47-line poem supposedly written by a peasant named Abu Shaduf, who charts the rise and fall of his fortunes and bewails, above all, the lack of access to delicious foods to which his poverty has condemned him. Wielding the scholarly tools of elite literature, al-Shirbini responds to the poem with derision and ridicule, dotting his satire of the ignorant rustic with numerous digressions into love, food, and flatulence. Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Brains Confounded belongs to an unrecognized genre from an understudied period in Egypt’s Ottoman history, and is a work of outstanding importance for the study of pre-modern colloquial Egyptian Arabic, pitting the “coarse” rural masses against the “refined” and urbane in a contest for cultural and religious primacy, with a heavy emphasis on the writing of verse as a yardstick of social acceptability.

Author : Yusuf al-Shirbini
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479888257
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded written by Yusuf al-Shirbini and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In Volume One, Al-Shirbini describes the three rural “types”—peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion and rural dervish—offering numerous anecdotes testifying to the ignorance, dirtiness, illiteracy, lack of proper religious understanding, and criminality of each. He follows it in Volume Two with a 47-line poem supposedly written by a peasant named Abu Shaduf, who charts the rise and fall of his fortunes and bewails, above all, the lack of access to delicious foods to which his poverty has condemned him. Wielding the scholarly tools of elite literature, al-Shirbini responds to the poem with derision and ridicule, dotting his satire of the ignorant rustic with numerous digressions into love, food, and flatulence. Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Brains Confounded belongs to an unrecognized genre from an understudied period in Egypt’s Ottoman history, and is a work of outstanding importance for the study of pre-modern colloquial Egyptian Arabic, pitting the “coarse” rural masses against the “refined” and urbane in a contest for cultural and religious primacy, with a heavy emphasis on the writing of verse as a yardstick of social acceptability.

Author : Ibn Buṭlān
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479827479
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doctors' Dinner Party written by Ibn Buṭlān and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty satire of the medical profession The Doctors’ Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu. A young doctor from out of town is invited to dinner with a group of older medical men, whose conversation reveals their incompetence. Written by the accomplished physician Ibn Buṭlān, the work satirizes the hypocrisy of quack doctors while displaying Ibn Buṭlān’s own deep technical knowledge of medical practice, including surgery, blood-letting, and medicines. He also makes reference to the great thinkers and physicians of the ancient world, including Hippocrates, Galen, and Socrates. Combining literary parody with social satire, the book is richly textured and carefully organized: in addition to the use of the question-and-answer format associated with technical literature, it is replete with verse and subtexts that hint at the infatuation of the elderly practitioners with their young guest. The Doctors’ Dinner Party is an entertaining read in which the author skewers the pretensions of the physicians around the table.