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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2017]
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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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