Leg over Leg : : Volume Three / / Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq; ed. by Humphrey Davies.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: al-Shidyāq, Aḥmad Fāris,
• HerausgeberIn: Davies, Humphrey,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Library of Arabic Literature ; 34
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Leg over leg. Volume three -- Contents of the book -- 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 -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index -- About the NYU Abu Dhabi institute -- About the typefaces -- About the editor-translator