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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Letter from the General Editor iii
3. Contents ix
4. Foreword. xii
5. Introduction xxi
6. Note on the Text lxvi
7. Notes to the Introduction lxix
8. Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded, Part One
9. In the Name of God The Merciful, the Compassionate To Whom We Turn for Help 3
10. The Author Describes the Ode of Abū Shādūf 5
11. The Author Embarks on a Description of the Common Country Folk 11
12. An Account of Their Escapades 23
13. An Account of Their Pastors and of the Compounded Ignorance, Imbecility, and Injuries to Religion and the Like of Which They Are Guilty 67
14. An Account of Their Poets and of Their Idiocies and Inanities 89
15. It Now Behooves Us to Offer a Small Selection of the Verse of Those Who Lay Claim to the Status of Poets but Are in Practice Poltroons, and Who Make Up Rhymes but Are Really Looney Tunes 155
16. An Account of Their Ignorant Dervishes and of Their Ignorant and Misguided Practice 168
17. Urjūzah Summarizing Part One 202
18. Notes 216
19. Index 273
20. About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute 287
21. About the Translator 288
22. The Library of Arabic Literature 289