Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded

Volume One

af Yusuf al-Shirbini

Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Y¿suf al-Shirb¿n¿¿s Brains Confounded pits the ¿coarse¿ rural masses against the ¿refined¿ urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirb¿n¿ describes the three rural ¿types¿¿peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion, and rural dervish¿offering anecdotes testifying to the ignorance, dirtiness, and criminality of each. In Volume Two, he presents a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day, with a 47-line poem supposedly written by... (Læs mere)