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The Performing Arts in Medieval Islam [electronic resource] : Shadow Play and Popular Poetry in Ibn Daniyal's Mamluk Cairo.

By: Publication details: Leiden : BRILL, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (254 p.)ISBN:
  • 9789004218802 (electronic bk.)
  • 9004218807 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Performing Arts in Medieval Islam : Shadow Play and Popular Poetry in Ibn Daniyal's Mamluk CairoDDC classification:
  • 791.5309621609022
LOC classification:
  • PJ7760.I185 .G886 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface; Abbreviations; Part One Life As a Play; Act One Eye Doctor and Street Buffoon; Act Two Court Panegyrist and Jester; Act Three Satirist and Shadow Playwright; Part Two Legacy and Controversy; The Making of the Arabic Shadow Play; The Ornament of the Poetry; The Many Faces of a Performer; Part Three The Play; The Phantom: A Shadow Play; Appendix 1: Manuscripts; Appendix 2: Sources; Bibliography; Index.
Summary: Drawing on medieval Arabic sources and earlier scholarship, this book is a study of the life and work of Ibn D?niy?l (d. 1310). It also presents the first full English translation of his shadow play "The Phantom."
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Preface; Abbreviations; Part One Life As a Play; Act One Eye Doctor and Street Buffoon; Act Two Court Panegyrist and Jester; Act Three Satirist and Shadow Playwright; Part Two Legacy and Controversy; The Making of the Arabic Shadow Play; The Ornament of the Poetry; The Many Faces of a Performer; Part Three The Play; The Phantom: A Shadow Play; Appendix 1: Manuscripts; Appendix 2: Sources; Bibliography; Index.

Drawing on medieval Arabic sources and earlier scholarship, this book is a study of the life and work of Ibn D?niy?l (d. 1310). It also presents the first full English translation of his shadow play "The Phantom."

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