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A Mirror for the Modern Man: The Siyar Šaʿbiyya as Advice Literature in Tunisian Judeo-Arabic Editions.

Historically, the siyar šaʿbiyya (sing. sīra) corpus—a collection of popular, orally-performed Arabic chivalric legends—have been cast as being outside of the ambit of adab (belles-lettres). Rather, scholars and critics both classical and modern have tended to regard them as tall tales and pseudo-hi...

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Published in:Arabica Vol. 65; no. 3; pp. 392 - 419
Main Author: Schine, Rachel
Format: Article
Published: Brill Academic Publishers 2018
Subjects:
Social conflict
Modernization (Social science)
Judeo-Arabic literature
Tall tales
Advice literature
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