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Leg over Leg : : Volumes One and Two / / Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
VerfasserIn:
al-Shidyāq, Aḥmad Fāris,
MitwirkendeR:
Davies, Humphrey,
Johnson, Rebecca C.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Library of Arabic Literature ; 1
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • NOTES TO THE FRONTMATTER
  • CONTENTS OF THE BOOK
  • THE DEDICATION OF THIS ELEGANTLY ELOQUENT BOOK
  • AUTHOR'S NOTICE
  • AN INTRODUCTION BY THE PUBLISHER OF THIS BOOK
  • PROEM
  • BOOK ONE
  • Chapter 1: Raising a Storm
  • Chapter 2: A Bruising Fall and a Protecting Shawl
  • Chapter 3: Various Amusing Anecdotes
  • Chapter 4: Troubles and a Tambour
  • Chapter 5: A Priest and a Pursie, Dragging Pockets and Dry Grazing
  • Chapter 6: Food and Feeding Frenzies
  • Chapter 7: A Donkey that Brayed, a Journey Made, a Hope Delayed
  • Chapter 8: Bodega, Brethren, and Board
  • Chapter 9: Unseemly Conversations and Crooked Contestations
  • Chapter 10: Angering Women Who Dart Sideways Looks, and Claws like Hooks
  • Chapter 11: That Which Is Long and Broad
  • Chapter 12: A Dish and an Itch
  • Chapter 13: A Maqāmah, or, a Maqāmah on “Chapter 13”
  • Chapter 14: A Sacrament
  • Chapter 15: The Priest’s Tale
  • Chapter 16: The Priest’s Tale Continued
  • Chapter 17: Snow
  • Chapter 18: Bad Luck
  • Chapter 19: Emotion and Motion
  • Chapter 20: The Difference between Market-men and Bag-men
  • BOOK TWO
  • 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 TRANSLATOR
  • THE LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATURE

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