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1 online resource (405 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Firing up a furnace -- Love and marriage -- Contagion -- Analepsis -- Travel, and the correction of a common misconception -- A banquet and various kinds of hot sauce -- That stinging sensation you feel when you get hot sauce up your nose -- Dreams -- The second dream -- The third dream -- Physicking the foul of breath -- A voyage and a conversation -- A Maqāmah to make one stand -- Raveningly ravenously famished -- The journey from the monastery -- Ecstasy -- An incitement to nudity -- A drain -- Assorted wonders -- A metropolitan theft. |
| Summary |
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 relatio. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shidyāq, Aḥmad Fāris, 1804?-1887.
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شدياق، احمد فارس. |
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شدياق، احمد فارس. 1804?-1887.
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Shidyāq, Aḥmad Fāris, 1804?-1887. |
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Shidyāq, Aḥmad Fāris, 1804?-1887 -- Travel -- Middle East.
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Travel. |
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Middle East. |
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Arabic language -- Lexicography.
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Arabic language -- Lexicography. |
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Middle East -- Description and travel.
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Electronic books.
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Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman), editor, translator.
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Shidyāq, Aḥmad Fāris, 1804?-1887.
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شدياق، احمد فارس. |
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Kirtāb al-Sāq ʻalá al-sāq : fī Mā huwa al-fāriyāq |
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كرتاب الساق على الساق : في ما هو الفارياق |
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Sāq ʻalá al-sāq |
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ساق على الساق |
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Print version: Leg over leg Volume three. New York : Library of Arabic Literature, 2014 9781479842247 |
| ISBN |
9781479838417 (electronic book) |
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1479838411 (electronic book) |
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9781479863686 (electronic book) |
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1479863688 (electronic book) |
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