: shadow play and popular poetry in Ibn Daniyal's Mamluk Cairo
/ Li Guo.
; Boston
: Brill
, 2012.
1111
p. cm.
Islamic history and civilization studies and texts ;
v. 93
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Life as a play. Eye doctor and street buffoon -- Court panegyrist and jester -- Satirist and shadow playwright -- Legacy and controversy. The making of the Arabic shadow play -- The ornament of the poetry -- The many faces of a performer -- The play. The phantom: a shadow play.
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Ibn Dānīyāl, Muḥammad,1249 or 50-1310 or 11-- Criticism and interpretation.
Arabic poetry - 1258-1800 - History and criticism.