Risible rhymes : or, The book to bring smile to the lips of devotees of tste nd 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.

Name: Risible rhymes : or, The book to bring smile to the lips of devotees of tste nd 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.
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.

Title	Risible rhymes : or, The book to bring smile to the lips of devotees of tste nd 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.
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.
Publication Date:	2016
Publication Place	- New York University Press
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., Egypt -- In literature.
Type	Book
Language	English
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	1 online resource
Library:	University College Dublin Library
Library Asset ID	9781479890781 (electronic bk.), 1479890782 (electronic bk.), 9781479857524 (electronic bk.), 1479857521 (electronic bk.), 9781479877928 (cl ; alk. paper), 1479877921 (cl ; alk. paper)
Record ID	b3224111
Library Location	In collection: Ebook Central Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Date	2016
Sample Text	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
Bibliyografya	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Seri	Library of Arabic literature

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Risible rhymes : or, The book to bring smile to the lips of devotees of tste nd 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.

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.

Publication Date 2016

Publication Place - New York University Press

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., Egypt -- In literature.

Type Book

Language English

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions 1 online resource

Library University College Dublin Library

Library Asset ID 9781479890781 (electronic bk.), 1479890782 (electronic bk.), 9781479857524 (electronic bk.), 1479857521 (electronic bk.), 9781479877928 (cl ; alk. paper), 1479877921 (cl ; alk. paper)

Record ID b3224111

Library Location In collection: Ebook Central Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Date 2016

Sample Text 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

Bibliyografya Includes bibliographical references and index.

Seri Library of Arabic literature