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Paperback Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded, with Risible Rhymes: Volume Two Book

ISBN: 1479829668

ISBN13: 9781479829668

Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded, with Risible Rhymes: Volume Two

(Part of the Library of Arabic Literature Series)

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Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbīnī describes the three rural "types"--peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion, and rural dervish--offering anecdotes testifying to the ignorance, dirtiness, and criminality of each. In Volume Two, he presents a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary...

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