Leg over Leg : : Volumes Three and Four /

Leg over Leg : : Volumes Three and Four / / Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq.

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
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al-Shidyāq, Aḥmad Fāris,
MitwirkendeR:
Davies, Humphrey,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Library of Arabic Literature ; 9
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Letter from the General Editor
  • About this Paperback
  • Contents
  • Contents of the Book
  • Book Three
  • Chapter 1. Firing Up a Furnace
  • Chapter 2. Love and Marriage
  • Chapter 3. Contagion
  • Chapter 4. Analepsis
  • Chapter 5. Travel, and the Correction of a Common Misconception
  • Chapter 6. A Banquet and Various Kinds of Hot Sauce
  • Chapter 7. That Stinging Sensation You Feel When You Get Hot Sauce up Your Nose
  • Chapter 8. Dreams
  • Chapter 9. The Second Dream
  • Chapter 10. The Third Dream
  • Chapter 11. Physicking the Foul of Breath
  • Chapter 12. A Voyage and a Conversation
  • Chapter 13. A Maqāmah to Make One Stand
  • Chapter 14. Raveningly Ravenously Famished
  • Chapter 15. The Journey from the Monastery
  • Chapter 16. Ecstasy
  • Chapter 17. An Incitement to Nudity
  • Chapter 18. A Drain
  • Chapter 19. Assorted Wonders
  • Chapter 20. A Metropolitan Theft
  • Book Four
  • Chapter 1. Unleashing a Sea
  • Chapter 2. A Farewell
  • Chapter 3. Assorted Pleas for Mercy
  • Chapter 4. The Rules for Retelling
  • Chapter 5. The Superiority of Women
  • Chapter 6. A Discussion
  • Chapter 7. Compare and Contrast
  • Chapter 8. A Voyage Festinate and Language Incomprehensibly and Inscrutably Intricate
  • Chapter 9. Form and Shapes
  • Chapter 10. A Passage and an Explanation
  • Chapter 11. A Translation and Some Advice
  • Chapter 12. Philosophical Reflections
  • Chapter 13. A Maqāmah to Make You Walk
  • Chapter 14. Elegy for a Son
  • Chapter 15. Mourning
  • Chapter 16. The Tyrannical Behavior of the English
  • Chapter 17. A Description of Paris
  • Chapter 18. A Complaint and Complaints
  • Chapter 19. A Metropolitan Theft and Miscellaneous Events
  • Chapter 20. A Selection of Poems and Verses Written by the Fāriyāq in Paris as Previously Alluded To
  • Conclusion
  • Letter
  • A List of the Synonymous and Lexically Associated Words in This Book
  • Appendix to the Book
  • List of Misspelled Arabic Words that I Discovered in the Transcriptions of Letters
  • Table Showing the Mistakes in the Probative Verses in the Maqāmāt
  • Notice
  • Translator’s Afterword
  • Chronology: al-Shidyāq, the Fāriyāq, and Leg over Leg
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Further Reading
  • Index
  • About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
  • About the Translator
  • The Library of Arabic Literature

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