Title The performing arts in medieval Islam : shadow play and popular poetry in Ibn Dāniyāl's Mamluk Cairo / by Li Guo.

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 240 pages)
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Contents	Life as a play. Eye doctor and street buffoon -- Court panegyrist and jester -- Satirist and shadow playwright -- Legacy and controversy. The making of the Arabic shadow play -- The ornament of the poetry -- The many faces of a performer -- The play. The phantom: a shadow play.
Summary	Drawing on medieval Arabic sources and earlier scholarship, this book is a study of the life and work of Ibn D?niy?l (d. 1310). It also presents the first full English translation of his shadow play "The Phantom."
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Subject	Ibn DàInìIyàIl, Muh̀I£ammad, 1249 or 1250-1310 or 1311 -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Arabic poetry -- 1258-1800 -- History and criticism.
	Arabic poetry.
Chronological Term	1258-1800
Subject	Shadow shows -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 13th century.
	Shadow shows.
	Egypt -- Cairo.
	History.
Chronological Term	13th century
Subject	Performing arts -- Islamic Empire -- History.
	Performing arts.
	Islamic Empire.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Guo, Li. Performing Arts in Medieval Islam : Shadow Play and Popular Poetry in Ibn Daniyal's Mamluk Cairo. Leiden : BRILL, ©2011 9789004210455
ISBN	9789004218802 (electronic book)
	9004218807 (electronic book)
	1283395916
	9781283395915
	9004218807