Leg over Leg : : Volume Three /

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

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,
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
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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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

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