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LEADER: 02132cam a22003014a 4500
001 2012038545
003 DLC
005 20130514105855.0
008 120921s2012 nyua b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2012038545
020 $a9780815632986 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
041 1 $aeng$hara
043 $ama-----
050 00 $aPJ7519.P32$bK48213 2012
082 00 $a892.7/83407$223
100 1 $aKhaṭīb al-Baghdādī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī,$d1002-1071.
240 10 $aTaṭfīl wa-ḥikāyāt al-ṭufaylīyīn wa-akhbārihim wa-nawādir kalāmihim wa-ashʻārihim.$kSelections.$lEnglish
245 10 $aSelections from the art of party-crashing in medieval Iraq /$cal-Khatib al-Baghdadi ; translated and illustrated by Emily Selove.
260 $aSyracuse University Press :$bSyracuse, New York,$cc2012.
300 $axv, 176 p. :$bill. ;$c19 cm.
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.
650 0 $aParasitism (Social sciences) in literature.
650 0 $aArabic poetry$y750-1258$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aParasitism (Social sciences)$vAnecdotes.
650 0 $aAnecdotes$zArab countries.
700 1 $aSelove, Emily.