By Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Humphrey Davies
ISBN-10: 147981329X
ISBN-13: 9781479813292
Leg over Leg recounts the existence, from beginning to center age, of “the Fariyaq,” modify ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal determine within the highbrow and literary background of the fashionable Arab international. The constantly edifying and sometimes hilarious adventures of the Fariyaq, as he strikes from his local Lebanon to Egypt, Malta, Tunis, England, and France, give you the writer with grist for wide-ranging discussions of the highbrow and social problems with his time, together with the lack of awareness and corruption of the Lebanese non secular and secular institutions, freedom of judgment of right and wrong, women’s rights, sexual relationships among women and men, the manners and customs of Europeans and center Easterners, and the variations among modern ecu and Arabic literatures, all of the whereas celebrating the genius and wonder of the classical Arabic language.
Volumes 3 and 4 see the peripatetic Fariyaq fall in love and convert to Catholicism for 24 hours that allows you to marry. even though the narrative revolves round a chain of debates over the character of male-female relationships, possibilities additionally come up for disquisitions at the actual and ethical importance of such different themes because the buttocks, the unreliability of virginity assessments, and the human capability for self-delusion. long remains in England and France permit for animadversions at the desk manners and sexual aberrations in their electorate, however the dialogue, even if it contain dance-halls, excitement gardens, or poetry, commonly finally ends up returning to gender relations.
Akin to Sterne and Rabelais in his satirical outlook and technical inventiveness, al-Shidyaq produced in Leg Over Leg a piece that's targeted and unclassifiable. It used to be at the beginning greatly condemned for its assaults on authority, its spiritual skepticism, and its “obscenity,” and later variants have been usually abridged. this is often the 1st entire English translation of this groundbreaking work.
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The human must inevitably therefore feel love for some person or other, some object or other, some abstraction or other, and the more his love grows in the area of one of these loci, the further it declines in another. At the same time, one of these loci may become a stimulus to his adding love for another. An example would be a person who devotes himself to poetry, singing, or painting and whose devotion to these things becomes a spur to his loving a beautiful person. One who devotes himself to scholarship or fighting or honor or the exercise of power must inevitably lose some of his desire for women; indeed, he may be too busy to think about them at all.
Series design and composition by Nicole Hayward Typeset in Adobe Text Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 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 Maqāmah to Make One Stand Chapter 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 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 Shapes 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 Conclusion 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 Maqāmāt Notice Translator’s Afterword Chronology Notes Glossary Bibliography Further Reading Index About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute About the Translator The Library of Arabic Literature 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 The writings of Zayd and Hind these days speak more to the common taste Than any pair of weighty tomes.
There are a further three states with respect to paucity, abundance, and their midpoint. The first is one of parity and consists of the lover loving his beloved as he loves himself; thus he never indulges himself in anything or pleasures himself with anything unless the one he loves is there to share that pleasure with him. This is how men are before and just after they get married, and it is not inconsistent with good sense and judgment. The second is the excessive, which is to say the one that goes beyond parity and consists of the lover loving his beloved more, as it were, than himself; it is characteristic of fathers and mothers in their love for their children and of certain lovers.
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