{"product_id":"risible-rhymes-9781479877928","title":"Risible Rhymes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritten in mid-seventeenth-century Egypt, \u003ci\u003eRisible\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRhymes \u003c\/i\u003eis in part a short, comic disquisition on \"rural\" verse, mocking the pretensions and absurdities of uneducated poets from Egypt's countryside.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe interest in the countryside as a cultural, social, economic, and religious locus in its own right that is hinted at in this work may be unique in pre-twentieth-century Arabic literature. As such, the work provides a companion piece to its slightly younger contemporary, Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī's \u003ci\u003eBrains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded\u003c\/i\u003e, which also takes examples of mock-rural poems and subjects them to grammatical analysis. The overlap between the two texts may indicate that they both emanate from a common corpus of pseudo-rural verse that circulated in Ottoman Egypt. \u003ci\u003eRisible Rhymes\u003c\/i\u003e also examines various kinds of puzzle poems--another popular genre of the day--and presents a debate between scholars over a line of verse by the fourth\/tenth-century poet al-Mutanabbī. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaken as a whole, \u003ci\u003eRisible Rhymes\u003c\/i\u003e offers intriguing insight into the critical concerns of mid-Ottoman Egypt, showcasing the intense preoccupation with wordplay, grammar, and stylistics that dominated discussions of poetry in al-Sanhūrī's day and shedding light on the literature of this understudied era. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA bilingual Arabic-English edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Muḥammad Ibn Al-Sanhūrī\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/04\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Library of Arabic Literature #31\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.7lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479877928","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45229717258377,"sku":"9781479877928","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_f64450c1-aafc-4204-bcf3-cf7048feefbd.jpg?v=1770112949","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/risible-rhymes-9781479877928","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}