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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…

Rhymes – Bawdy, witty and savage Yusuf al Shirbini’s Brains Confused is a battle between those who are “coarse” rural population against the “refined” urban populace. The first volume outlines the 3 rural “types”–peasant farmer, village man of religion and the rural dervish,…