Leg over leg or Volume two 1st Edition by Ahmad Faris al Shidyaq ISBN 9780814744949
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ISBN 13: 9780814744949
Author: Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
Volume Leg Over Leg Or, the Turtle in the Tree Concerning the What Manner of Creature Might He Be.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 native Lebanon to Egypt, Malta, Tunis, England and France, provide the author with grist for wide-ranging discussions of the intellectual and social issues of his time, including the ignorance and corruption of the Lebanese religious and secular establishments, freedom of conscience, women s rights, sexual relationships between men and women, the manners and customs of Europeans and Middle Easterners, and the differences between contemporary European and Arabic literatures. Al-Shidyaq also celebrates the genius and beauty of the classical Arabic language.Akin to Sterne and Rabelais in his satirical outlook and technical inventiveness, al-Shidyaq produced inLeg Over Lega work that is unique and unclassifiable. It was initially widely condemned for its attacks on authority, its religious skepticism, and its obscenity, and later editions were often abridged. This is the first English translation of the work and reproduces the original Arabic text, published under the author s supervision in 1855.”Humphrey Davies is an award-winning translator of Arabic literature from the Ottoman period to the present. Writers he has translated include Elias Khoury, Naguib Mahfouz, Alaa Al Aswany, Bahaa Taher, Mourid Barghouti, Muhammad Mustagab, Gamal al-Ghitani, Hamdy el-Gazzar, Khaled Al-Berry, and Ahmed Alaidy, as well as Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq and Yusuf al-Shirbini for the Library of Arabic Literature. He has also authored, with Madiha Doss, an anthology of writings in Egyptian colloquial Arabic. He lives in Cairo.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1. Rolling a Boulder
Chapter 2. A Salutation and a Conversation
Chapter 3. The Extraction of the Fariyaq 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 Maqamah to Make You Sit
Chapter 14. An Explanation of the Obscure Words in the Preceding Maqamah 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
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