{"product_id":"risible-rhymes-9781479857524","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA bilingual Arabic-English edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Muḥammad ibn Maḥfūẓ al-Sanhūrī","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48089533907195,"sku":"9781479857524","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_5464947f-d71c-4339-bc2d-8b0cb453cbdb.jpg?v=1770443297","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/risible-rhymes-9781479857524","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}