The Journal of the American Oriental Society, July 1st, 1994
The appearance at last of this long-awaited volume is an event of considerable significance to students of medieval Arabic literature. The art of the Arabic shadow play, in which articulated cut-out figures, sometimes very elaborate ones, were held against the back of a translucent screen and backlighted so as to produce silhouettes, is known to us from literary references beginning as early as the tenth century; but the fourteenth-century Egyptian plays of Ibn Daniyal, here published in a full and critical edition for the first time, are the only texts of such plays to survive from before t...
HighBeam Research, Free Preview: 'Three Shadow Plays by Muhammad Ibn Daniyal. (book reviews)'... Full Membership required for unlimited access. Free 7-day trial.
Subscribers: HighBeam content is only available to HighBeam subscribers. Click the link above for more information.
