Selections from the art of party-crashing in medieval Iraq
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Arabic |
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Syracuse, N.Y. :
Syracuse University Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- al-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.