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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, 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 __Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded__, 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. __Risible Rhymes__ 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. Taken as a whole, __Risible Rhymes__ offers intriguing insight into the critical concerns of mid-Ottoman Egypt, showcasing the intense preoccupation with wordplay, grammar, and stylistics that domi

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Author

Muḥammad ibn Maḥfūẓ al-Sanhūrī; Humphrey Davies

Publisher

NYU Press | Library of Arabic Literature

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781479890781

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Collections, History, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14