The Mawwal about the Snare and the Sparrow: A Late Medieval Colloquial Egyptian Verse Adaptation of Narrative(s) in Prose Rooted in Arabic Classical Literature

Amir Lerner

doi:10.1093/jss/fgx040

The Mawwal about the Snare and the Sparrow: A Late Medieval Colloquial Egyptian Verse Adaptation of Narrative(s) in Prose Rooted in Arabic Classical Literature

Amir Lerner

Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies

Tel Aviv University

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The paper presents a study and critical edition of an Egyptian mawwal about a hunter, a snare and a sparrow, contained in the seventeenthcentury ce BNF, ms. arabe, 3571. It is a verse piece composed in colloquial Egyptian Arabic, whose narrative was known in a number of popular versions in prose mostly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ce. This narrative has deep roots in classical Arabic literature.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	155-181
Number of pages	27
Journal	Journal of Semitic Studies
Volume	63
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgx040
State	Published - 1 Apr 2018

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Cultural Studies
Language and Linguistics
History
Religious studies
Linguistics and Language
Literature and Literary Theory

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