Brains Confounded by the Ode of Ab Shdf Expounded, with Risible Rhymes: Volume Two

About Muammad ibn Maf al-SanhrYsuf al-Shirbn

Ysuf al-Shirbn (Author) Ysuf al-Shirbn was a well-educated Egyptian from the eleventh/seventeenth century thought to originate from the town of Shirbn then a significant rural center in the eastern part of Delta. Little is known about him--including his social standing and profession--beyond Brains Confounded and two other extant texts: The Pearls (Al-Lali wa-l-durar) and The Casting Aside of the Clods for the Unstringing of the Pearls (ar al-madar li-all al-lali wa-l-durar). Muhammad ibn Mahfuz al-Sanhuri (Author) Muammad ibn Maf al-Sanhr is an eleventh/seventeenth-century author who likely hailed from Egypts Fayyum region although nothing else is known about him. Humphrey Davies (Translator) Humphrey Davies is an award-winning translator of some twenty-five works of modern Arabic literature among them Alaa Al-Aswanys The Yacoubian Building five novels by Elias Khoury including Gate of the Sun and Amad Fris al-Shidyqs Leg over Leg. He has also made a critical edition translation and lexicon of the Ottoman-period Brains Confounded by the Ode of Ab Shdf Expounded by Ysuf al-Shirbn as well as editions and translations of al-Tniss In Darfur and al-Sanhrs Risible Rhymes from the same era. In addition he has compiled with Madiha Doss an anthology in Arabic entitled Al-mmiyyah al-miriyyah al-maktbah: mukhtrt min 1400 il 2009 (Egyptian Colloquial Writing: selections from 1400 to 2009) and co-authored with Lesley Lababidi A Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo. He read Arabic at the University of Cambridge received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and previous to undertaking his first translation in 2003 worked for social development and research organizations in Egypt Tunisia Palestine and Sudan. He is affiliated with the American University in Cairo.