The Arab Rabelais: Ibn Dāniyāl's Carnivalesque Satire and Wit

In medieval Cairo the oculist and litterateur Ibn Dāniyāl satirized the Mamluk Sultan Baybars's campaign against vice in three shadow plays drawing on a mock-heroic rhetoric in the irreverent burlesque tradition. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the playwright's carnivalesque...

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Main Author: Mahfouz, Safi Mahmoud (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2017]
In: Journal of Semitic studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 62, Issue: 2, Pages: 413-445
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
KBL Near East and North Africa
TH Late Middle Ages
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