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PMNP |
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20250606095054.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781479838905 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
PMNP |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
Kutubkhanah Diraja |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
307.72096209032 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded |
| Remainder of title |
Volume Two / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī; Edited and Translated by Humphrey Davies |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
NYU Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2016 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
546 |
| Dimensions |
6.00 x 9.00 in |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>A bilingual Arabic-English edition. |
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580 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Arabic literature |
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Books |
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No |
