Risible Rhymes by Muḥammad Ibn Al-Sanhūrī

Risible Rhymes

Muḥammad Ibn Al-Sanhūrī with Humphrey Davies (Translator)

128 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary reflective medium-paced
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Written in mid-seventeenth-century Egypt, Risible Rhymes is in part a short, comic disquisition on "rural" verse, mocking the pretensions and absurdities of uneducated poets from Egypt's countryside. The interest in the countryside as a cultural, ...

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