TY  - DATA
AU  - al-Sanhūrī,Muḥammad ibn Maḥfūẓ
AU  - Davies,Humphrey
TI  - Risible Rhymes
T2  - Library of Arabic Literature
SN  - 9781479890781
AV  - PJ8210 .S2565 2016
U1  - 892.7/14 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Arabic poetry
KW  - 1258-1800
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Country life in literature
KW  - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Middle Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 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, Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī’s Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf 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-Mutanabbī. 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-Sanhūrī's day and shedding light on the literature of this understudied era.A bilingual Arabic-English edition
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479890781.001.0001
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ER  -