Leg over Leg. Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq

      

      كتاب

      الساق على الساق

      فى ما هو الفارياق

      فارس الشدياق

      المجلد الرابع

      Leg over Leg

      or

      The Turtle in the Tree

      concerning

      The Fāriyāq

      What Manner of Creature Might He Be

      by

      Fāris al-Shidyāq

      Volume Four

      Edited and translated by

       Humphrey Davies

      NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

       New York and London

      Table of Contents

      Letter from the General Editor

       Leg over Leg, Volume Four

       Chapter One: Unleashing a Sea

       Chapter Two: A Farewell

       Chapter Three: Assorted Pleas for Mercy

       Chapter Four: The Rules for Retelling

       Chapter Five: The Superiority of Women

       Chapter Six: A Discussion

       Chapter Seven: Compare and Contrast

       Chapter Eight: A Voyage Festinate and Language Incomprehensibly and Inscrutably Intricate

       Chapter Nine: Form and Shapes

       Chapter Ten: A Passage and an Explanation

       Chapter Eleven: A Translation and Some Advice

       Chapter Twelve: Philosophical Reflections

       Chapter Thirteen: A Maqāmah to Make You Walk

       Chapter Fourteen: Elegy for a Son

       Chapter Fifteen: Mourning

       Chapter Sixteen: The Tyrannical Behavior of the English

       Chapter Seventeen: A Description of Paris

       Chapter Eighteen: A Complaint and Complaints

       Chapter Nineteen: A Metropolitan Theft and Miscellaneous Events

       Chapter Twenty: A Selection of Poems and Verses Written by the Fāriyāq in Paris as Previously Alluded To

      The Poem for Sultan ʿAbd al-Majīd Khān, may God preserve his might

      The Presumptive Poem in Praise of Paris and the Prescriptive Poem in Dispraise of It

      The Poem in Which He Eulogized the Honorable and Ennobled Emir ʿAbd Al-Qādir Ibn Muḥyī Al-Dīn

      The Poem in Which He Eulogized the Honorable and Ennobled Ṣubḥī Bayk, Of Noble Lineage and Line, in Islāmbūl

      The Eulogy He Wrote to the Virtuous and Wise Priest Ghubrāʾīl Jubārah

      A Poem on Gambling

      Room Poems

      Poems of Separation

       Conclusion

       Letter

       A List of the Synonymous and Lexically Associated Words in This Book

       Appendix to the Book

       List of Misspelled Arabic Words that I Discovered in the Transcriptions of Letters in Persian in the Book by “the Sandy Shaykh,” Alexandre Chodźko

       Table Showing the Mistakes in the Probative Verses in the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī

      Translator’s Afterword

      Chronology: al-Shidyāq, the Fāriyāq, and Leg over Leg

      Notes

      Glossary

      Bibliography

      Further Reading

      About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute

      About this E-book

      About the Editor-Translator

      Library of Arabic Literature

       Editorial Board

      General Editor

      Philip F. Kennedy, New York University

      Executive Editors

      James E. Montgomery, University of Cambridge

      Shawkat M. Toorawa, Cornell University

      Editors

      Julia Bray, University of Oxford

      Michael Cooperson, University of California, Los Angeles

      Joseph E. Lowry, University of Pennsylvania

      Tahera Qutbuddin, University of Chicago

      Devin J. Stewart, Emory University

      Managing Editor

      Chip Rossetti

      Volume Editor

      Michael Cooperson

      Letter from the General Editor

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