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Selections from the art of party-crashing in medieval Iraq
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0815632983 (hbk.)
9780815632986 (hbk.)
Author
Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī 1002-1071
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Taṭfīl wa-ḥikāyāt al-ṭufaylīyīn wa-akhbārihim wa-nawādir kalāmihim wa-ashʻārihim. Selections English
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Selections from the art of party-crashing in medieval Iraq / al-Khatib al-Baghdadi ; translated and illustrated by Emily Selove
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Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 2012
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xv, 176 pages ; illustrations ; 19 cm.
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Translation based on the manuscript held at the Chester Beatty, Dublin: CBL Ar 3851.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-176).
Contents
Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi's introduction -- The meaning of 'party-crashing' in the language and the first person named after it -- Early party-crashing -- Going to a meal without being invited is deemed rude -- Those who cast aspersions on party-crashing and its practitioners and satirize and denounce them -- Those who praise, make excuses for, or speak well of party-crashing -- Party-crashers from among the notables, the noble, the learned, and the cultured -- Those who engage in very subtle acts of party-crashing -- Those who love people to sponge and facilitate it -- Anecdotes about party-crashers who exert themselves in party-crashing and make it a trade and occupation -- Accounts of the ones that the guards would refuse, but who outwit the guards with a lie or a ruse -- Mention of the party-crashers' conversations, advice, and poetry -- Accounts of Bunan, the party-crasher -- A document pertaining to party-crashing
Subject
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Ar 3851
Parasitism (Social sciences) in literature
Parasitism (Social sciences) -- Anecdotes
Arabic poetry -- 750-1258 -- History and criticism
Anecdotes -- Arab countries
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