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The life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'—the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-ShidyaqLeg 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 m...

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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
  • Letter from the General Editor
  • About this Paperback
  • 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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