Leg over Leg. Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq

introducing the Arabic literary heritage to scholars and students, as well as to a general audience of readers.

      Philip F. Kennedy

       General Editor, Library of Arabic Literature

      كتاب

      الساق على الساق فى ما هو الفارياق

      او

      ايام وشهور واعوام فى عجم العرب والاعجام

      تاليف العبد الفقير الى ربه الرزاق

      فارس بن يوسف الشدياق

      Leg over Leg

      or

      The Turtle in the Tree

      concerning

      The Fāriyāq

      What Manner of Creature Might He Be

      otherwise entitled

      Days, Months, and Years

      spent in

      Critical Examination

      of

      The Arabs

      and

      Their Non-Arab Peers

      by

      The Humble Dependent on His Lord the Provider

      Fāris ibn Yūsuf al-Shidyāq

      فهرست الكتاب

      الكتاب الرابع

الفصل الاول	فى اطلاق بحر *
الفصل الثانى	فى وداع *
الفصل الثالث	فى استرحامات شتى *
الفصل الرابع	فى شروط الرواية *
الفصل الخامس	فى فضل النسآ وفيه وصف لندن عن الفارياق *
الفصل السادس	فى محاورة *
الفصل السابع	فى الطباق والتنظير *
الفصل الثامن	فى سفر معجّل وهينوم عقمى رهبل *
الفصل التاسع	فى الهيئة والاشكال *
الفصل العاشر	فى سفر وتفسير *
الفصل الحادى عشر	فى ترجمة ونصيحة *
الفصل الثانى عشر	فى خواطر فلسفية *
الفصل الثالث عشر	فى مقامة ممشية *
الفصل الرابع عشر	فى رثآء ولد *
الفصل الخامس عشر	فى الحِداد *
الفصل السادس عشر	فى جور الانكليز *
الفصل السابع عشر	فى وصف باريس *
الفصل الثامن عشر	فى شكاة وشكوى *
الفصل التاسع عشر	فى سرقة مطرانية ووقائع مختلفة *
الفصل العشرون	فى نبذة مما نظمه الفارياق من القصائد والابيات فى باريس على ما سبقت الاشارة اليه *

      Contents of the Book

      Book Four

      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, including a Description of London on the Authority of the Fāriyāq

      Chapter 6: A Discussion

      Chapter 7: Compare and Contrast

      Chapter 8: A Voyage Festinate and Language Incomprehensibly and Inscrutably Intricate

      Chapter 9: Form and Shape

      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: 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

      A List of the