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11 produkter
Leg Over Leg
Volume One
Av Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq, Humphrey Davies
Inbunden, 2013
721 kr
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Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators' Association The life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'—the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-ShidyaqLeg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of 'the Fariyaq,' alter …
Leg Over Leg
Volume Two
Av Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq, Humphrey Davies
Inbunden, 2013
721 kr
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Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators' Association The life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'—the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-ShidyaqLeg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of 'the Fariyaq,' alter …
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded, with Risible Rhymes
Volume Two
Av Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī, Muḥammad ibn Maḥfūẓ al-Sanhūrī m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
595 kr
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Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbīnī describes the three rural "types"—peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion, and rural dervish—offering anecdotes testifying to the …
Leg Over Leg
Volume Three
Av Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq, Humphrey Davies
Inbunden, 2014
725 kr
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Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators' Association The life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'—the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-ShidyaqLeg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of 'the Fariyaq,' alter …
In Darfur
An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two
Av Muḥammad al-Tūnisī, Humphrey Davies
Inbunden, 2018
591 kr
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A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading with Egypt and what is now Sudan. Al-Tunisi was raised in Cairo and a graduate of al-Azhar. In 1803, at the age of fourteen, …
Leg Over Leg
Volume Four
Av Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq, Humphrey Davies
Inbunden, 2014
725 kr
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Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators' Association The life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'—the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-ShidyaqLeg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of 'the Fariyaq,' alter …
In Darfur
An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume One
Av Muḥammad al-Tūnisī, Humphrey Davies
Inbunden, 2018
591 kr
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A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading with Egypt and what is now Sudan. Al-Tunisi was raised in Cairo and a graduate of al-Azhar. In 1803, at the age of fourteen, …
Risible Rhymes
Av Muḥammad ibn Maḥfūẓ al-Sanhūrī, Humphrey Davies
Inbunden, 2016
431 kr
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Written in mid-seventeenth-century Egypt, Risible Rhymes is in part a short, comic disquisition on "rural" verse, mocking the pretensions and absurdities of uneducated poets from Egypt's countryside.The interest in the countryside as a cultural, social, economic, and religious locus in its own …
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded
Volume One
Av Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī, Humphrey Davies
Inbunden, 2016
595 kr
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Unique in pre-twentieth-century Arabic literature for taking the countryside as its central theme, Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī's Brains Confounded combines a mordant satire on seventeenth-century Egyptian rural society with a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his …
Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo
Häftad, 2018
369 kr
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The map of a city is a palimpsest of its history. In Cairo, people, places, events, and even dates have lent their names to streets, squares, and bridges, only for those names often to be replaced, and then replaced again, and even again, as the city and the country imagine and reimagine their …
Leg Over Leg
4-volume Set
Av Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq, Humphrey Davies
Inbunden, 2014
1795 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators' Association The life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'—the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-ShidyaqLeg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of 'the Fariyaq,' alter …
