Selections from the art of party-crashing in medieval Iraq (Record no. 77904)

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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 892.7/83407
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Kha�t�ib al-Baghd�ad�i, Ab�u Bakr A�hmad ibn �Al�i,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Selections from the art of party-crashing in medieval Iraq
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Syracuse, N.Y. :
Name of publisher Syracuse University Press,
Year of publication 2012.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xv, 176 p. :
Other physical details ill.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Parasitism (Social sciences) in literature.
Topical Term Arabic poetry
Topical Term Parasitism (Social sciences)
Topical Term Anecdotes
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Selove, Emily.
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10656148

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