Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume Two by Humphrey Davies, Yūsuf Al-Shirbīnī

Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume Two

Humphrey Davies, Yūsuf Al-Shirbīnī

558 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Unique in pre-20th-century Arabic literature for taking the countryside as its central theme, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded combines a mordant satire on seventeenth-century Egyptian rural society with a hilarious parody of the verse-and-co...

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