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This collection of Pierre Cachia's pioneering essays explore the character and range of Arab folk literature. Arranged into three sections, Cachia looks first at historical developments in the relationship between Arab folk literature and that of the elite, the gradual elaboration of certain genres, and the producers of folk literature. He then devotes a substantial section to the consideration of single or related texts. Finally he searches for evidence of social and cultural implications and for differences of attitudes of folk and elite towards sensitive issues.
Contents
Foreword: The Transcription of Arabic
Part I. Fact Finding
1. Arabic Literatures, 'Elite' and 'Folk' - Junctions and Disjunctions
2. The Egyptian Mawwal: its Ancestry, its Development, and its Present Forms
3. The Nahda's first stirrings of interest in Alf Layla
4. The Career of Mustafa Ibrahim 'Ajaj
Part II. Texts
5. The Prophet's Shirt: three Versions of an Egyptian Narrative Ballad
6. An Uncommon Use of Nonsense Verse in Colloquial Arabic
7. An Early Example of Narrative Verse in Colloquial Arabic
8. An Incomplete Egyptian Ballad on the 1956 War
9. Three Versions of an Egyptian Narrative Ballad
10. Pulp Stories in the Repertoire of Egyptian Folk Singers
11. Karam il-Yatim
12. Of Loose Verse and Masculine Beauty
13. A Zajal on the Mi
Part III. Cultural and Social Implications
14. The 'Other' in Egyptian Folk Literature
15. Cultural Cross-Currents in Maltese Idioms
16. Social Values Reflected in Egyptian Popular Ballads
17. Folk Themes in the Works of Najib Surur
18. Elite treatment of Honour Crimes in Modern Egypt
