The Tale of the Persian Scholar -- Sermons by Country Pastors -- Further Anecdotes Showing the Ignorance of Country Pastors -- Funayn's Letter and Another Missive -- An Account of Their Poets and of Their Idiocies and Inanities -- The First of Their Verses: "My shirt kept trailing behind the plow"--The Second of Their Verses: "And I said to her, 'Piss on me and spray!'" -- The Verse of Shaykh Barakat: "Barakat was passin' by" -- The Third of Their Verses: "By God, by God, the Moighty, the Omnipotent
| Author: Yusuf ibn Mu?ammad Shirbini, Humphrey Davies