Selections from the art of party-crashing in medieval Iraq [electronic resource] / al-Khatib al-Baghdadi ; translated and illustrated by Emily Selove.
Language: English Original language: Arabic Publication details: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 176 p. : illISBN:- 9780815632986 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780815651796 (e-book)
- Ta�tf�il wa-�hik�ay�at al-�tufayl�iy�in wa-akhb�arihim wa-naw�adir kal�amihim wa-ash��arihim. English. Selections
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- PJ7519.P32 K48213 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references.
al-Khatib al-Baghdadi's introduction -- The meaning of "party-crashing" in the language and the first person named after it -- Early party-crashing -- Going to a meal without being invited is deemed rude -- Those who cast aspersions on party-crashing and its practitioners and satirize and denounce them -- Those who praise, make excuses for, or speak well of party-crashing -- Party-crashers from among the notables, the noble, the learned, and the cultured -- Those who engage in very subtle acts of party-crashing -- Those who love people to sponge and facilitate it -- Anecdotes about party-crashers who exert themselves in party-crashing and make it a trade and occupation -- Accounts of the ones that the guards would refuse, but who outwit the guards with a lie or a ruse -- Mention of the party-crashers' conversations, advice, and poetry -- Accounts of Bunan, the party-crasher -- A document pertaining to party-crashing.
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