Selections from the art of party-crashing in medieval Iraq

by Kha�t�ib al-Baghd�ad�i, Ab�u Bakr A�hmad ibn �Al�i, , Ta�tf�il wa-�hik�ay�at al-�tufayl�iy�in wa-akhb�arihim wa-naw�adir kal�amihim wa-ash��arihim.
Additional authors: Selove, Emily. | ebrary, Inc.
Edition statement:1st ed. Published by : Syracuse University Press, (Syracuse, N.Y. :) Physical details: xv, 176 p. : ill. Year: 2012
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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.

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