TY  - BOOK
AU  - Guo,Li
TI  - The Performing Arts in Medieval Islam: Shadow Play and Popular Poetry in Ibn Daniyal's Mamluk Cairo
SN  - 9789004218802 (electronic bk.)
AV  - PJ7760.I185 .G886 2011 
U1  - 791.5309621609022 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Ibn DàInìIyàIl, Muh̀I£ammad,
KW  - Arabic poetry
KW  - 1258-1800
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Ibn DaÌ"niÌ"yaÌ"l, MuhÌ£ammad, 1249 or 50-1310 or 11
KW  - Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Performing arts
KW  - Islamic Empire
KW  - History
KW  - Shadow shows
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Cairo
KW  - 13th century
KW  - Fine Arts
KW  - Literature
KW  - CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Puppets & Puppetry
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Puppets & Puppetry
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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