Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded. Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī

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       Foreword

       Introduction

       Note on the Text

       Notes to the Introduction

       BRAINS CONFOUNDED BY THE ODE OF ABŪ SHĀDŪF EXPOUNDED, PART ONE

       The Author Describes the Ode of Abū Shādūf

       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

       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 Barakāt: “Barakāt 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!’”

       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-Amīn

       Verses by Murjān al-Ḥabashī

       Verses by a Turkish Judge

       Verses by Shaykh Muḥammad al-Rāziqī

       Elegy by a Certain Dim-Witted Poet to the Emir Ibn al-Khawājā Muṣṭafā

       A Chronogram

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

       The Practices of the Khawāmis Sect

       Anecdotes Showing the Ignorance of Country Dervishes

       More Anecdotes Showing the Beliefs and Practices of Heretical Dervishes

       Urjūzah Summarizing Part One

       Notes

       Index

       About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute

       About the Translator

       Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature

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