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020 _a9780815651796
020 _a0815651791
020 _z9780815632986 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _z0815632983
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
041 1 _aeng
_hara
050 0 0 _aPJ7519.P32
_bK48213 2012
082 0 0 _a892.7/83407
_223
100 1 _aKhaṭīb al-Baghdādī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī,
_d1002-1071.
240 1 0 _aTaṭfīl wa-ḥikāyāt al-ṭufaylīyīn wa-akhbārihim wa-nawādir kalāmihim wa-ashʻārihim.
_kSelections.
_lEnglish
245 1 0 _aSelections from the art of party-crashing in medieval Iraq
_h[electronic resource] /
_cal-Khatib al-Baghdadi ; translated and illustrated by Emily Selove.
260 _aSyracuse University Press :
_bSyracuse, New York,
_c2012.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (168 p.)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 _aal-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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aAnecdotes
_zArab countries.
650 0 _aParasitism (Social sciences)
_vAnecdotes.
650 0 _aArabic poetry
_y750-1258
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aParasitism (Social sciences) in literature.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aSelove, Emily.
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780815651796/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c32136
_d32136