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Risible Rhymes / Muḥammad ibn Maḥfūẓ al-Sanhūrī; Humphrey Davies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- al-Sanhūrī, Muḥammad ibn Maḥfūẓ, Author.
- Series:
- Library of Arabic literature.
- Library of Arabic Literature ; 31
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Country life in literature.
- Arabic poetry--1258-1800--History and criticism--Early works to 1800.
- Arabic poetry.
- Arabic poetry--Egypt--History and criticism--Early works to 1800.
- Egypt--In literature.
- Egypt.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (88 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : New York University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Written in mid-17th centuryEgypt, Risible Rhymesis in part a short, comic disquisition on “rural” verse, mocking thepretensions and absurdities of uneducated poets from Egypt’s countryside.The interestin the countryside as a cultural, social, economic, and religious locus inits own right that is hinted at in this work may be unique in pre-twentieth-centuryArabic literature. As such, the work provides a companion piece to its slightlyyounger contemporary, Yusuf al-Shirbini’s Brains Confounded by the Ode of AbuShaduf Expounded, which also takes examples of mock-rural poems andsubjects them to grammatical analysis. The overlap between the two texts mayindicate that they both emanate from a common corpus of pseudo-rural verse thatcirculated in Ottoman Egypt.Risible Rhymes also examines various kinds of puzzlepoems—another popular genre of the day—and presents a debate between scholarsover a line of verse by the tenth-century poet al-Mutanabbi. Taken as a whole, RisibleRhymes offers intriguing insight into the critical concerns of mid-OttomanEgypt, showcasing the intense preoccupation with wordplay, grammar, andstylistics that dominated discussions of poetry in al-Sanhuri’s day andshedding light on the literature of this understudied era.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Letter from the General Editor
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- Notes to the Introduction
- Risible Rhymes
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
- About the Typefaces
- Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature
- About the Editor–Translator
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 1-4798-9078-2
- OCLC:
- 952566997
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