The Performing Arts in Medieval Islam [electronic resource] : Shadow Play and Popular Poetry in Ibn Daniyal's Mamluk Cairo.
Publication details: Leiden : BRILL, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (254 p.)ISBN:- 9789004218802 (electronic bk.)
- 9004218807 (electronic bk.)
- Arabic poetry -- 1258-1800 -- History and criticism
- Ibn DaÌ"niÌ"yaÌ"l, MuhÌ£ammad, 1249 or 50-1310 or 11 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Performing arts -- Islamic Empire -- History
- Shadow shows -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 13th century
- Fine Arts
- Literature
- Ibn DàInìIyàIl, Muh̀I£ammad, 1249 or 50-1310 or 11 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Arabic poetry -- 1258-1800 -- History and criticism
- Shadow shows -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 13th century
- Performing arts -- Islamic Empire -- History
- CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Puppets & Puppetry
- PERFORMING ARTS / Puppets & Puppetry
- 791.5309621609022
- PJ7760.I185 .G886 2011
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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