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The performing arts in medieval Islam : shadow play and popular poetry in Ibn Dāniyāl's Mamluk Cairo / by Li Guo.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Islamic History and Civilization SerPublication details: Leiden : BRILL, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 240 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789004218802
  • 9004218807
  • 1283395916
  • 9781283395915
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Performing Arts in Medieval Islam : Shadow Play and Popular Poetry in Ibn Daniyal's Mamluk Cairo.DDC classification:
  • 791.5309621609022
LOC classification:
  • PJ7760.I185 .G886 2011
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Life as a play. Eye doctor and street buffoon -- Court panegyrist and jester -- Satirist and shadow playwright -- Legacy and controversy. The making of the Arabic shadow play -- The ornament of the poetry -- The many faces of a performer -- The play. The phantom: a shadow play.
Summary: Drawing on medieval Arabic sources and earlier scholarship, this book is a study of the life and work of Ibn D?niy?l (d. 1310). It also presents the first full English translation of his shadow play "The Phantom."
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Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)420243

Life as a play. Eye doctor and street buffoon -- Court panegyrist and jester -- Satirist and shadow playwright -- Legacy and controversy. The making of the Arabic shadow play -- The ornament of the poetry -- The many faces of a performer -- The play. The phantom: a shadow play.

Drawing on medieval Arabic sources and earlier scholarship, this book is a study of the life and work of Ibn D?niy?l (d. 1310). It also presents the first full English translation of his shadow play "The Phantom."

Print version record.