27 janvier 2022
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Taman Davies Humphrey, « 5. Kitāb Hazz al-quḥūf (1600s) », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.rpop48
Al-Shirbīnī’s work, which he probably wrote in or soon after 1686, is perhaps unique in pre-20th-century Arabic literature, and unusual in any pre-20th-century scholarly literature, in focusing on the countryside as a cultural, social, economic, and religious site in its own right. The work, which is in two parts, surveys, in the first, the three estates of rural (effectively, northeastern Egyptian Delta) society: the peasant (and above all the poor peasant) as cultivator or fallāḥ; the count...