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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 nati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Shidyāq, Aḥmad Fāris, 1804?-1887, Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman) (Editor , Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Arabic
Publicado: New York : Library of Arabic Literature, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Shidyāq, Aḥmad Fāris, > 1804?-1887.
Shidyāq, Aḥmad Fāris, > 1804?-1887 > Travel > Middle East.
Travel.
Arabic language > Lexicography.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
Arabe (Langue) > Lexicographie.
Middle East.
Middle East > Description and travel.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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. Selection of poems and verses written by the Fāriyāq in Paris as previously alluded to
  • Conclusion. Letter to "Sīdi Shaykh Muhammad, Sayyidna Metropolitan Butrus," etc.

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