Leg over Leg : Volume Two / Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq; ed. by Humphrey Davies.
al-Shidyāq, Aḥmad Fāris, author.; Davies, Humphrey, editor.
2013
PJ7862.H48
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Title Leg over Leg : Volume Two / Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq; ed. by Humphrey Davies.
Author al-Shidyāq, Aḥmad Fāris, author.
ISBN 9780814738467
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814738467.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814738467.001.0001 doi
Call Number PJ7862.H48
Dewey Decimal Classification 892.78508
Summary Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of 'the Fariyaq,' alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world. The always edifying and often hilarious adventures of the Fariyaq, as he moves from his native Lebanon to Egypt, Malta, Tunis, England and France, provide the author with grist for wide-ranging discussions of the intellectual and social issues of his time, including the ignorance and corruption of the Lebanese religious and secular establishments, freedom of conscience, women's rights, sexual relationships between men and women, the manners and customs of Europeans and Middle Easterners, and the differences between contemporary European and Arabic literatures. Al-Shidyaq also celebrates the genius and beauty of the classical Arabic language.Akin to Sterne and Rabelais in his satirical outlook and technical inventiveness, al-Shidyaq produced in Leg Over Leg a work that is unique and unclassifiable. It was initially widely condemned for its attacks on authority, its religious skepticism, and its "obscenity," and later editions were often abridged. This is the first English translation of the work and reproduces the original Arabic text, published under the author's supervision in 1855.
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Series Library of Arabic Literature ; ; 27
In New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Frontmatter
Letter from the General Editor
Table of Contents
Leg Over Leg
Contents of the Book
Chapter 1: Rolling a Boulder
Chapter 2: A Salutation and a Conversation
Chapter 3: The Extraction of the Fāriyāq from Alexandria, by Sail
Chapter 4: A Throne to Gain Which Man Must Make Moan
Chapter 5: A Description of Cairo
Chapter 6: Nothing
Chapter 7: A Description of Cairo
Chapter 8: Notice that the Description of Cairo is Ended
Chapter 9: That to Which I Have Alluded
Chapter 10: A Doctor
Chapter 11: The Fulfillment of What He Promised Us
Chapter 12: Poems for Princes
Chapter 13: A Maqāmah to Make You Sit
Chapter 14: An Explanation of the Obscure Words in the Preceding Maqāmah and Their Meanings
Chapter 15: Right There! ☞
Chapter 16: Right Here!
Chapter 17: Elegy for a Donkey
Chapter 18: Various Forms of Sickness
Chapter 19: The Circle of the Universe and the Center of This Book
Chapter 20: Miracles and Supernatural Acts
Notes
Glossary
Index
About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
About the Typefaces
About the Editor-Translator

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