Author
Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman), Shirbīnī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad, active 1665-1687, author.
Publication Date
2016
Publication Place
New York -
New York University Press
Subject
Villages -- Egypt -- Early works to 1800, Egypt -- Rural conditions -- 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, Arabic literature, Rural conditions, Satire, Arabic, Social problems in literature, Villages, Egypt
Type
Book
Language
ara,eng
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
24 cm
Library
Wesleyan University Library
Library Asset ID
LC : 2016006848, ISBN : 9781479882342, ISBN : 1479882348, ISBN : 9781479838905, ISBN : 147983890X, OCLC : (OCoLC)940795629, ISBN : 9781479822362
Record ID
alma9910635893808696
Library Location
Available from other libraries
Date
2016
Notes
In English with orginal Arabic text., Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sample Text
Machine generated contents note:
• PART ONE
• The Author Describes the Ode of Abu Shaduf
• The Author Embarks on a Description of the Common Country Folk
• An Account of a Few of Their Names, Nicknames, and Kunyahs
• Their Children
• Their Women during Intercourse
• Their Weddings
• An Account of Their Escapades
• Anecdotes Showing that a Man Cannot Escape His Inborn Nature
• Anecdotes Showing the Stupidity of Country People
• Accounts of What Happened to Peasants Who Went to the City
• The Peasant Who Attended the Friday Prayer in a Village by the River
• The Tale of the Three Whores of Cairo
• Anecdotes Concerning Country People Who Went to the City and Were Overtaken by the Need to Relieve Themselves, Etc.
• The Tale of the Champions of Discourtesy of Cairo and Damascus
• The Tale of the Boors of Cairo and Damascus
• More Anecdotes Illustrating the Stupidity of Country People
• Anecdotes about Country People Who Voided Their Prayers
• An Account of Their Pastors and of the Compounded Ignorance, Imbecility, and Injuries to Religion and the Like of Which They Are Guilty
• 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 Barakat: "Barakat was passin' by"
• The Third of Their Verses: "By God, by God, the Moighty, the Omnipotent"
• The Fourth of Their Verses: "The soot of my paternal cousin's oven is as black as your kohl marks"
• The Fifth of Their Verses: "I asked after the beloved. They said, `He skedaddled from the shack!'"
• The Sixth of Their Verses: "The rattle staff of our mill makes a sound like your anklets"
• The Seventh of Their Verses: "I saw my beloved with a plaited whip driving oxen"
• It Now Behooves Us to Offer a Small Selection of the Verse of Those Who Lay Claim to the Status of Poets but Are in Practice Poltroons, and Who Make Up Rhymes but Are Really Looney Tunes
• Verses by al-Amin
• Verses by Murjan al-Habashi
• Verses by a Turkish Judge
• Verses by Shaykh Muhammad al-Raziqi
• Elegy by a Certain Dim-Witted Poet to the Emir Ibn al-Khawaja Mustafa
• A Chronogram
• An Account of Their Ignorant Dervishes and of Their Ignorant and Misguided Practices
• The Practices of the Khawamis Sect
• Anecdotes Showing the Ignorance of Country Dervishes
• More Anecdotes Showing the Beliefs and Practices of Heretical Dervishes
• Urjuzah Summarizing Part One.
Tür
Early works to 1800, Early works
Seri
Library of Arabic literature, Library of Arabic literature.
