Arabic Shadow Theatre 1300-1900 - A Handbook

This handbook aims at a history of Arabic shadow theatre from the earliest sightings in the tenth century to the turn of the twentieth century. At the core is an analytical documentation of all the known textual remnants and the preserved artifacts of this rich and still living tradition.

About the author

Li Guo, Ph.D. (1994), Yale University, is Professor of Arabic at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent book, The Performing Arts in Medieval Islam: Shadow play and popular poetry in Ibn Daniyal's Mamluk Cairo (Brill, 2012) is the winner of the IIM Prize for Research in the category "New conceptual tools," Institut International de la Marionnette, France, 2015.

Product details

• Authors: LI Guo
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.08.2020
• EAN: 9789004436145
• ISBN: 978-90-04-43614-5
• No. of pages: 300
• Weight: 569 g
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies.
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias