Al-Shirb &

Broschiertes Buch

Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded

Volume One

Übersetzer: Davies, Humphrey

Beschreibung

Originally published in hardback in 2016.

Autor

Y¿suf al-Shirb¿n¿ (Author) Y¿suf al-Shirb¿n¿ was a well-educated Egyptian from the eleventh/seventeenth century, thought to originate from the town of Shirb¿n, then a significant rural center in the eastern part of Delta. Little is known about him--including his social standing and profession--beyond Brains Confounded and two other extant texts: The Pearls (Al-Lä¿li¿ wa-l-durar) and The Casting Aside of the Clods for the Unstringing of the Pearls (¿ar¿ al-madar li-¿all al-lä¿li¿ wa-l-durar). Humphrey Davies (Edited and Translated by) Humphrey Davies is an award-winning translator of some twenty-five works of modern Arabic literature, among them Alaa Al-Aswany's The Yacoubian Building, five novels by Elias Khoury, including Gate of the Sun, and A¿mad F¿ris al-Shidy¿q's Leg over Leg. He has also made a critical edition, translation, and lexicon of the Ottoman-period Brains Confounded by the Ode of Ab¿ Sh¿d¿f Expounded by Y¿suf al-Shirb¿n¿, as well as editions and translations of al-T¿nis¿'s In Darfur and al-Sanh¿r¿'s Risible Rhymes from the same era. In addition, he has compiled with Madiha Doss an anthology in Arabic entitled Al-¿¿mmiyyah al-mi¿riyyah al-makt¿bah: mukht¿r¿t min 1400 il¿ 2009 (Egyptian Colloquial Writing: selections from 1400 to 2009) and co-authored, with Lesley Lababidi, A Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo. He read Arabic at the University of Cambridge, received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and previous to undertaking his first translation in 2003, worked for social development and research organizations in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Sudan. He is affiliated with the American University in Cairo.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New York University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781479840212
• ISBN-10: 1479840211
• Artikelnr.: 54325579