Research Catalog

Title

Brains confounded by the ode of Abū Shādūf expounded / Yusuf Al-Shirbini ; edited and translated by Humphrey Davies.

Author

Shirbīnī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad, active 1665-1687

Publication

New York : New York Univeristy Press, 2016.

Supplementary Content

Publisher description

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman)
• Shirbīnī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad, active 1665-1687.

Description

2 volumes; 24 cm

Series Statement

Library of Arabic literature

Uniform Title

Library of Arabic literature.

Subjects

• Villages
• Satire, Arabic
• Egypt
• Arabic literature
• Social problems in literature
• Villages > Egypt > Early works to 1800
• Satire, Arabic > Egypt > Early works to 1800
• Rural conditions
• Social problems in literature > Early works to 1800
• Egypt > Rural conditions > Early works to 1800
• Early works
• Arabic literature > Egypt > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

Early works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages lii-lviii) and index.

Language (note)

• In English with orginal Arabic text.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFL 17-9

ISBN

• 9781479882342 (cl : alk. paper)
• 1479882348 (cl : alk. paper)
• 9781479838905 (cl : alk. paper)
• 147983890X (cl : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2016006848
• 40026274888

OCLC

940795629

Author

Shirbīnī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad, active 1665-1687, author.

Title

Brains confounded by the ode of Abū Shādūf expounded / Yusuf Al-Shirbini ; edited and translated by Humphrey Davies.

Publisher

New York : New York Univeristy Press, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Library of Arabic literature

Library of Arabic literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages lii-lviii) and index.

Language

In English with orginal Arabic text.

Connect to:

Publisher description

Added Author

Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman), editor, translator.

Shirbīnī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad, active 1665-1687. Hazz al-quḥūf fī sharḥ qaṣīd Abī Shādūf. English.

Shirbīnī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad, active 1665-1687. Hazz al-quḥūf fī sharḥ qaṣīd Abī Shādūf.

Other Form:

Online version: Shirbīnī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad, active 1665-1687. Brains confounded by the ode of Abu Shaduf expounded. New York : New York Univeristy Press, 2016 9781479822362 (DLC) 2016008844 (OCoLC)940796412

Other Standard Identifier

40026274888

Research Call Number

JFL 17-9