How Long to Read Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded

How Long Does it Take to Read Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 54 minutes to read Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded by Yusuf al-Shirbini

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Unique in pre-20th-century Arabic literature for taking the countryside as its central theme, Yusuf al-Shirbini’s Brains Confounded combines a mordant satire on seventeenth-century Egyptian rural society with a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day. In Volume One, Al-Shirbini describes the three rural “types”—peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion and rural dervish—offering numerous anecdotes testifying to the ignorance, dirtiness, illiteracy, lack of proper religious understanding, and criminality of each. He follows it in Volume Two with a 47-line poem supposedly written by a peasant named Abu Shaduf, who charts the rise and fall of his fortunes and bewails, above all, the lack of access to delicious foods to which his poverty has condemned him. Wielding the scholarly tools of elite literature, al-Shirbini responds to the poem with derision and ridicule, dotting his satire of the ignorant rustic with numerous digressions into love, food, and flatulence. Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Brains Confounded belongs to an unrecognized genre from an understudied period in Egypt’s Ottoman history, and is a work of outstanding importance for the study of pre-modern colloquial Egyptian Arabic, pitting the “coarse” rural masses against the “refined” and urbane in a contest for cultural and religious primacy, with a heavy emphasis on the writing of verse as a yardstick of social acceptability.

How long is Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded?

Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded by Yusuf al-Shirbini is 465 pages long, and a total of 118,575 words.

This makes it 157% the length of the average book. It also has 145% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 47 minutes to read Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded aloud.

What Reading Level is Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded?

Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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