{"product_id":"risible-rhymes-hardcover","title":"Risible Rhymes - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMuḥammad Ibn Al-Sanhūrī\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHumphrey Davies\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eHumphrey Davies\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMuhammad ibn Mahfuz al-Sanhuri (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMuḥammad ibn Maḥfūẓ al-Sanhūrī \u003c\/b\u003eis an eleventh\/seventeenth-century author who likely hailed from Egypt's Fayyum region, although nothing else is known about him. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHumphrey Davies (Edited and Translated by) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e Humphrey Davies\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning translator of some twenty-five works of modern Arabic literature, among them Alaa Al-Aswany's \u003ci\u003eThe Yacoubian Building\u003c\/i\u003e, five novels by Elias Khoury, including \u003ci\u003eGate of the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, and Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq's \u003ci\u003eLeg over Leg\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also made a critical edition, translation, and lexicon of the Ottoman-period \u003ci\u003eBrains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded\u003c\/i\u003e by Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī, as well as editions and translations of al-Tūnisī's \u003ci\u003eIn Darfur \u003c\/i\u003eand al-Sanhūrī's \u003ci\u003eRisible Rhymes \u003c\/i\u003efrom the same era. In addition, he has\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecompiled with Madiha Doss an anthology in Arabic entitled \u003ci\u003eAl-ʿāmmiyyah al-miṣriyyah al-maktūbah: mukhtārāt min 1400 ilā 2009\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eEgyptian Colloquial Writing: selections from 1400 to 2009\u003c\/i\u003e) and co-authored, with Lesley Lababidi, \u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo\u003c\/i\u003e. He read Arabic at the University of Cambridge, received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and previous to undertaking his first translation in 2003, worked for social development and research organizations in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Sudan. He is affiliated with the American University in Cairo. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 04, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42717523476543,"sku":"9781479877928","price":67.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/bdd8d7ee20214ac61e053b0f9bebc41f.webp?v=1765078767","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/risible-rhymes-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}