Risible Rhymes: Or The Book to Bring a Smile to the Lips of Devotees of Proper Taste and Style Throught the Decoding of a Sampling of the Verse of the ... Him His Sins (Library of Arabic Literature) - Hardcover

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9781479877928: Risible Rhymes: Or The Book to Bring a Smile to the Lips of Devotees of Proper Taste and Style Throught the Decoding of a Sampling of the Verse of the ... Him His Sins (Library of Arabic Literature)
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ISBN 10: 1479877921 ISBN 13: 9781479877928
Verlag: NEW YORK UNIV PR, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Written in mid-seventeenth-century Egypt, Risible Rhymes is in part a short, comic disquisition on “rural” verse, mocking the pretensions and absurdities of uneducated poets from Egypt’s countryside.

The interest in the countryside as a cultural, social, economic, and religious locus in its own right that is hinted at in this work may be unique in pre-twentieth-century Arabic literature. As such, the work provides a companion piece to its slightly younger contemporary, Yusuf al-Shirbini’s Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded, which also takes examples of mock-rural poems and subjects them to grammatical analysis. The overlap between the two texts may indicate that they both emanate from a common corpus of pseudo-rural verse that circulated in Ottoman Egypt. Risible Rhymes also examines various kinds of puzzle poems—another popular genre of the day—and presents a debate between scholars over a line of verse by the fourth/tenth-century poet al-Mutanabbi.

Taken as a whole, Risible Rhymes offers intriguing insight into the critical concerns of mid-Ottoman Egypt, showcasing the intense preoccupation with wordplay, grammar, and stylistics that dominated discussions of poetry in al-Sanhuri's day and shedding light on the literature of this understudied era.

A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

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Muhammad ibn Mahfuz al-Sanhuri (Author)
Mu?ammad ibn Ma?fu? al-Sanhuri is an eleventh/seventeenth-century author who likely hailed from Egypt’s Fayyum region, although nothing else is known about him.

Humphrey Davies (Edited and Translated by)
Humphrey Davies is an award-winning translator of some twenty-five works of modern Arabic literature, among them Alaa Al-Aswany’s The Yacoubian Building, five novels by Elias Khoury, including Gate of the Sun, and A?mad Faris al-Shidyaq’s Leg over Leg. He has also made a critical edition, translation, and lexicon of the Ottoman-period Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded by Yusuf al-Shirbini, as well as editions and translations of al-Tunisi’s In Darfur and al-Sanhuri’s Risible Rhymes from the same era. In addition, he has compiled with Madiha Doss an anthology in Arabic entitled Al-?ammiyyah al-mi?riyyah al-maktubah: mukhtarat min 1400 ila 2009 (Egyptian Colloquial Writing: selections from 1400 to 2009) and co-authored, with Lesley Lababidi, A Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo. He read Arabic at the University of Cambridge, received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and previous to undertaking his first translation in 2003, worked for social development and research organizations in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Sudan. He is affiliated with the American University in Cairo.

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Verlag
NEW YORK UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1479877921
ISBN 13 
9781479877928
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
128
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