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1 online resource (583 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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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 -- 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. Selection of poems and verses written by the Fāriyāq in Paris as previously alluded to -- Conclusion. Letter to "Sīdi Shaykh Muhammad, Sayyidna Metropolitan Butrus," etc. |
| 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. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Shidyāq, Aḥmad Fāris, 1804?-1887.
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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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Shidyāq, Aḥmad Fāris, 1804?-1887. |
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شدياق، احمد فارس. |
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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. 1804?-1887.
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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 four. New York : Library of Arabic Literature, 2014 9781479875757 |
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9781479879205 (electronic book) |
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1479879207 (electronic book) |
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9781479883929 (electronic book) |
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1479883921 (electronic book) |
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