9781479809721

1479809721

9781479882342

1479882348

9781479838905

147983890X

In English with orginal Arabic text.

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Library of Arabic literature

The Sixth of Their Verses: "The rattle staff of our mill makes a sound like your anklets"

The Seventh of Their Verses: "I saw my beloved with a plaited whip driving oxen"

It Now Behooves Us to Offer a Small Selection of the Verse of Those Who Lay Claim to the Status of Poets but Are in Practice Poltroons, and Who Make Up Rhymes but Are Really Looney Tunes

Verses by al-Amin

Verses by Murjan al-Habashi

Verses by a Turkish Judge

Verses by Shaykh Muhammad al-Raziqi

Elegy by a Certain Dim-Witted Poet to the Emir Ibn al-Khawaja Mustafa

A Chronogram

An Account of Their Ignorant Dervishes and of Their Ignorant and Misguided Practices

The Practices of the Khawamis Sect

Anecdotes Showing the Ignorance of Country Dervishes

More Anecdotes Showing the Beliefs and Practices of Heretical Dervishes

Urjuzah Summarizing Part One.

Anecdotes about Country People Who Voided Their Prayers

An Account of Their Pastors and of the Compounded Ignorance, Imbecility, and Injuries to Religion and the Like of Which They Are Guilty

The Tale of the Persian Scholar

Sermons by Country Pastors

Further Anecdotes Showing the Ignorance of Country Pastors

Funayn's Letter and Another Missive

An Account of Their Poets and of Their Idiocies and Inanities

The First of Their Verses: "My shirt kept trailing behind the plow"

The Second of Their Verses: "And I said to her, `Piss on me and spray!'"

The Verse of Shaykh Barakat: "Barakat was passin' by"

The Third of Their Verses: "By God, by God, the Moighty, the Omnipotent"

The Fourth of Their Verses: "The soot of my paternal cousin's oven is as black as your kohl marks"

The Fifth of Their Verses: "I asked after the beloved. They said, `He skedaddled from the shack!'"

Machine generated contents note: PART ONE

The Author Describes the Ode of Abu Shaduf

The Author Embarks on a Description of the Common Country Folk

An Account of a Few of Their Names, Nicknames, and Kunyahs

Their Children

Their Women during Intercourse

Their Weddings

An Account of Their Escapades

Anecdotes Showing that a Man Cannot Escape His Inborn Nature

Anecdotes Showing the Stupidity of Country People

Accounts of What Happened to Peasants Who Went to the City

The Peasant Who Attended the Friday Prayer in a Village by the River

The Tale of the Three Whores of Cairo

Anecdotes Concerning Country People Who Went to the City and Were Overtaken by the Need to Relieve Themselves, Etc.

The Tale of the Champions of Discourtesy of Cairo and Damascus

The Tale of the Boors of Cairo and Damascus

More Anecdotes Illustrating the Stupidity of Country People

Arabic literature > Egypt > Early works to 1800.

Satire, Arabic > Egypt > Early works to 1800.

Social problems in literature > Early works to 1800.

Villages > Egypt > Early works to 1800.

Egypt > Rural conditions > Early works to 1800.

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