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هزّ القحوف بشرح قصيد أبي شادوف

يوسف الشربينيّ

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Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded

Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī

Volume One

Edited and translated by

Humphrey Davies

Volume editors

James E. Montgomery

Geert Jan van Gelder

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

New York and London

Table of Contents

Letter from the General Editor

Introduction

Note on the Text

Notes to the Introduction

Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded, Part One

The Author Describes the Ode of Abū Shādūf

The Author Embarks on a Description of the Common Country Folk

An Account of Their Escapades

An Account of Their Pastors and of the Compounded Ignorance, Imbecility, and Injuries to Religion and the Like of Which They Are Guilty

An Account of Their Poets and of Their Idiocies and Inanities

It Now Behooves Us to Offer a Small Selection of the Verse of Those Who Lay Claim to the Status of Poets but Are in Practice Poltroons, and Who Make Up Rhymes but Are Really Looney Tunes

An Account of Their Ignorant Dervishes and of Their Ignorant and Misguided Practices

Urjūzah Summarizing Part One

Index

About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute

About this E-book

Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature

About the Editor–Translator

Library of Arabic Literature

Editorial Board

General Editor

Philip F. Kennedy, New York University

Executive Editors

James E. Montgomery, University of Cambridge

Shawkat M. Toorawa, Cornell University

Editors

Julia Bray, University of Oxford

Michael Cooperson, University of California, Los Angeles

Joseph E. Lowry, University of Pennsylvania

Tahera Qutbuddin, University of Chicago

Devin J. Stewart, Emory University

Managing Editor

Chip Rossetti

Digital Production Manager

Stuart Brown

Assistant Editor

Gemma Juan-Simó

Letter from the General Editor

The Library of Arabic Literature series offers Arabic editions and English translations of significant works of Arabic literature, with an emphasis on the seventh to nineteenth centuries. The Library of Arabic Literature thus includes texts from the pre-Islamic era to the cusp of the modern period, and encompasses a wide range of genres, including poetry, poetics, fiction, religion, philosophy, law, science, history, and historiography.

Books in the series are edited and translated by internationally recognized scholars and are published in parallel-text format with Arabic and English on facing pages, and are also made available as English-only paperbacks.

The Library encourages scholars to produce authoritative, though not necessarily critical, Arabic editions, accompanied by modern, lucid English translations. Its ultimate goal is to introduce the rich, largely untapped Arabic literary heritage to both a general audience of readers as well as to scholars and students.

The Library of Arabic Literature is supported by a grant from the New York University Abu Dhabi Institute and is published by NYU Press.

Philip F. Kennedy

General Editor, Library of Arabic Literature

To Kristina Nelson and Clare and James Davies