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Letter from the General Editor
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 a Few of Their Names, Nicknames, and Kunyahs
Their Children
Their Women during Intercourse
Their Weddings
Anecdotes Showing that a Man Cannot Escape His Inborn Nature
Anecdotes Showing the Stupidity of Country People
Accounts of What Happened to Peasants Who Went to the City
The Peasant Who Attended the Friday Prayer in a Village by the River
The Tale of the Three Whores of Cairo
Anecdotes Concerning Country People Who Went to the City and Were Overtaken by the Need to Relieve Themselves, Etc.
The Tale of the Champions of Discourtesy of Cairo and Damascus
The Tale of the Boors of Cairo and Damascus
More Anecdotes Illustrating the Stupidity of Country People
Anecdotes about Country People Who Voided Their Prayers
The Tale of the Persian Scholar
Sermons by Country Pastors
Further Anecdotes Showing the Ignorance of Country Pastors
Funayn’s Letter and Another Missive
An Account of Their Poets and of Their Idiocies and Inanities
The First of Their Verses: “My shirt kept trailing behind the plow”
The Second of Their Verses: “And I said to her, ‘Piss on me and spray!’”
The Verse of Shaykh Barakāt: “Barakāt was passin’ by”
The Third of Their Verses: “By God, by God, the Moighty, the Omnipotent”
The Fourth of Their Verses: “The soot of my paternal cousin’s oven is as black as your kohl marks”
The Fifth of Their Verses: “I asked after the beloved. They said, ‘He skedaddled from the shack!’”
The Sixth of Their Verses: “The rattle staff of our mill makes a sound like your anklets”
The Seventh of Their Verses: “I saw my beloved with a plaited whip driving oxen”
Verses by al-Amīn
Verses by Murjān al-Ḥabashī
Verses by a Turkish Judge
Verses by Shaykh Muḥammad al-Rāziqī
Elegy by a Certain Dim-Witted Poet to the Emir Ibn al-Khawājā Muṣṭafā
A Chronogram
An Account of Their Ignorant Dervishes and of Their Ignorant and Misguided Practices
The Practices of the Khawāmis Sect
Anecdotes Showing the Ignorance of Country Dervishes
More Anecdotes Showing the Beliefs and Practices of Heretical Dervishes
