Ḥikāyat Abī al-Qāsim

A Literary Banquet

AvEmily Selove

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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This study compares ?ikayah, a mysterious text surviving in a single manuscript, to other comical banquet texts and party-crashing characters, especially from Ancient Greece and Rome.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-08-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt:333 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474426381

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Emily Selove is a lecturer in Medieval Arabic Literature at the University of Exeter. She is the translator of al-Khatib al-Baghdadi’s 11th-century work on party-crashing, The Art of Party-Crashing in Medieval Iraq.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsPart 1Introductiona. Manuscriptb. Authorship and Datingc. Editionsd. Translationse. Summary of Eventsf. Scholarshipg. A Mediterranean TablePart IIChapter 1: A Sampling of the ḤikāyahPart IIIChapter 2: A Microcosm Introduceda. Mimesis or Mannerism?b. Baghdad the Party-Crasherc. Those Camels have PassedPart IVChapter 3: Crashing the TextPart VChapter 4: Mujun is a Crazy GamePart VIChapter 5: The Cosmic Crashera. Abū al-Qāsim as Microcosmb. Abī al-Qāsim as Iblīsc. The Microcosm is a ManPart VIIConclusiona. Bojangles Won’t Danceb. Philemon and BaucisBibliographyIndex