Arabic-L:LING/LIT:Critical Edition of Shirbini's Hazz Al-Quhuf

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Date: 29 Nov 2005
From:hdavies at aucegypt.edu
Subject:Critical Edition of Shirbini's Hazz Al-Quhuf

Dear List Members,

I would like to draw the attention of scholars to the publication of  
my =
critical edition of Yusuf al-Shirbini's Hazz al-Quhuf bi-Sharh Qasid  
Abi =
Shaduf ("Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded") which  
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available from Peeters 141 in their series Orientalia Lovaniensia =
Analecta (http://www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=3D7838).
The work, written in 1686 or soon after, takes the form of a lengthy =
introduction to and commentary on a poem supposedly composed by an =
Egyptian peasant in which the latter describes the ill times on which  
he =
has fallen and lists the dishes he dreams of eating. This format  
allows =
the author both to attack rural society (which he divides into  
peasants, =
jurisprudents (fuqaha'), and Sufis (fuqara')) and to play for comic =
effect with the conventions of the then central text-and-commentary =
genre. In so doing, he not only provides important information on  
rural =
Lower Egypt during an understudied period but reveals many of the =
concerns of the educated vis-=E0-vis the masses, whether rural or  
urban. =
The work also contains the longest passages of colloquial Egyptian  
known =
from before the nineteenth century. It will interest students of  
Arabic =
literature, Ottoman Egyptian culture, the socio-economic and =
intellectual history of Egypt, rural-urban relations in Egypt, and =
Arabic linguistics.

Humphrey Davies
6, Sharia Ismail Sirri, Apt 3.
El Mounira, Cairo
EGYPT

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