Leg over leg, or, The turtle in the tree concerning the F�ariy�aq. Volumes three and four : what manner of creature might he be / by Faris al-Shidyaq ; translated by Humphrey Davies ; volume editor, Michael Cooperson.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Series: Library of Arabic literaturePublisher: New York : New York University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- Leg over leg
- Turtle in the tree
- Shidy�aq, A�hmad F�aris, 1804?-1887. S�aq �al�a al-s�aq
- Shidy�aq, A�hmad F�aris, 1804?-1887. S�aq �al�a al-s�aq. English
- 892.7/8503 23
- PJ7862.H48 S213 2015eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cover; Contents; Letter from the General Editor; About this Paperback; BOOK THREE; Contents of the Book; Chapter 1: Firing Up a Furnace; Chapter 2: Love and Marriage; Chapter 3: Contagion; Chapter 4: Analepsis; Chapter 5: Travel, and the Correction of a Common Misconception; Chapter 6: A Banquet and Various Kinds of Hot Sauce; Chapter 7: That Stinging Sensation You Feel When You Get Hot Sauce up Your Nose; Chapter 8: Dreams; Chapter 9: The Second Dream; Chapter 10: The Third Dream; Chapter 11: Physicking the Foul of Breath; Chapter 12: A Voyage and a Conversation.
Chapter 13: A Maq�amah to Make One StandChapter 14: Raveningly Ravenously Famished; Chapter 15: The Journey from the Monastery; Chapter 16: Ecstasy; Chapter 17: An Incitement to Nudity; Chapter 18: A Drain; Chapter 19: Assorted Wonders; Chapter 20: A Metropolitan Theft; 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 F�ariy�aq; Chapter 6: A Discussion; Chapter 7: Compare and Contrast.
Chapter 8: A Voyage Festinate and Language Incomprehensibly and Inscrutably IntricateChapter 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 Maq�amah 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 F�ariy�aq in Paris as Previously Alluded ToConclusion; Letter; A List of the Synonymous and Lexically Associated Words in This Book; Appendix; List of Misspelled Arabic Words that I Discovered in the Transcriptions of Letters; Table Showing the Mistakes in the Probabtive Verses in the Maq�am�at; Notice; Translator's Afterword; Chronology; Notes; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; H; I; J; K; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Y; Z; Bibliography; Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
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