Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded, with Risible Rhymes: Volume Two by Yūsuf Al-Shirbīnī, Muḥammad Ibn Al-Sanhūrī

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

Yūsuf Al-Shirbīnī, Muḥammad Ibn Al-Sanhūrī with Humphrey Davies (Translator)

380 pages missing pub info (editions)

fiction classics literary sociology reflective medium-paced

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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 ...

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