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- Title
THE MAWWĀL ABOUT THE SNARE AND THE SPARROW: A LATE MEDIEVAL COLLOQUIAL EGYPTIAN VERSE ADAPTATION OF NARRATIVE(S) IN PROSE ROOTED IN ARABIC CLASSICAL LITERATURE.
- Authors
Lerner, Amir
- Abstract
The paper presents a study and critical edition of an Egyptian mawwāl about a hunter, a snare and a sparrow, contained in the seventeenth-century CE BNF, ms. arabe, 3571. It is a verse piece composed in colloquial Egyptian Arabic, whose narrative was known in a number of popular versions in prose mostly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries CE. This narrative has deep roots in classical Arabic literature.
- Subjects
ARABIC literature; MAWWAL; EGYPTIAN poetry; COLLOQUIAL language in literature; ARABIC poetry; NARRATIVE poetry
- Publication
Journal of Semitic Studies, 2018, Vol 63, Issue 1, p155
- ISSN
0022-4480
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jss/fgx040