Leg over leg. or, The turtle in the tree, concerning the Fāriyāq, what manner of creature might he be / Volume three :

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman) (Editor, Translator), Shidyāq, Aḥmad Fāris, 1804?-1887
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Arabic
Published: New York : Library of Arabic Literature, 2014.
Subjects:
Shidyāq, Aḥmad Fāris, > 1804?-1887.
Shidyāq, Aḥmad Fāris, > 1804?-1887 > Travel > Middle East.
Shidyāq, Aḥmad Fāris, > 1804?-1887
Arabic language > Lexicography.
Arabe (Langue) > Lexicographie.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
Arabic language > Lexicography
Travel
Middle East > Description and travel.
Middle East
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Firing up a furnace
  • Love and marriage
  • Contagion
  • Analepsis
  • Travel, and the correction of a common misconception
  • A banquet and various kinds of hot sauce
  • That stinging sensation you feel when you get hot sauce up your nose
  • Dreams
  • The second dream
  • The third dream
  • Physicking the foul of breath
  • A voyage and a conversation
  • A Maqāmah to make one stand
  • Raveningly ravenously famished
  • The journey from the monastery
  • Ecstasy
  • An incitement to nudity
  • A drain
  • Assorted wonders
  • A metropolitan theft.

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