Leg over Leg: Volume Three

405 Pages·2013·5.042 MB·English

by  Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Humphrey Davies

Leg over Leg
Volume Three
Library of Arabic Literature
Editorial Board
General Editor
Philip F. Kennedy, New York University
Executive Editors
James E. Montgomery, University of Cambridge
Shawkat M. Toorawa, Cornell University
Editors
Julia Bray, University of Oxford
Michael Cooperson, University of California, Los Angeles
Joseph E. Lowry, University of Pennsylvania
Tahera Qutbuddin, University of Chicago
Devin J. Stewart, Emory University
Managing Editor
Chip Rossetti
Volume Editor
Michael Cooperson
Letter from the General Editor
The Library of Arabic Literature is a new series offering Arabic editions and
English translations of key works of classical and pre-modern Arabic literature,
as well as anthologies and thematic readers. Books in the series are edited
and translated by distinguished scholars of Arabic and Islamic studies, and
are published in parallel-text format with Arabic and English on facing pages.
The Library of Arabic Literature includes texts from the pre-Islamic era to
the cusp of the modern period, and encompasses a wide range of genres,
including poetry, poetics, fiction, religion, philosophy, law, science, history, and
historiography.
Supported by a grant from the New York University Abu Dhabi Institute,
and established in partnership with NYU Press, the Library of Arabic Literature
produces authoritative Arabic editions and modern, lucid English translations,
with the goal of introducing the Arabic literary heritage to scholars and students,
as well as to a general audience of readers.
Philip F. Kennedy
General Editor, Library of Arabic Literature
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Leg over Leg
or
The Turtle in the Tree
concerning
The Fāriyāq
What Manner of Creature
Might He Be
by
Fāris al-Shidyāq
Volume Three
Edited and translated by
Humphrey Davies
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Copyright © 2014 by New York University
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shidyaq, Ahmad Faris, 1804?-1887.
Leg over leg or, : The turtle in the tree / Faris al-Shidyaq ; edited and
translated by Humphrey Davies.
volumes cm
Bilingual edition In English and Arabic on facing pages.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8147-2937-3 (cl : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-8147-4524-3
(e-book) -- ISBN 978-0-8147-4541-0 (e-book) 1. Shidyaq, Ahmad Faris,
1804?-1887. 2. Shidyaq, Ahmad Faris, 1804?-1887--Travel--Middle East. 3.
Arabic language--Lexicography. 4. Middle East--Description and travel. I.
Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman) translator, editor. II. Shidyaq, Ahmad
Faris, 1804?-1887. Saq ‘ala al-saq. III. Shidyaq, Ahmad Faris, 1804?-1887.
Saq ‘ala al-saq. English. IV. Title. V. Title: Turtle in the tree.
PJ7862.H48S213 2013
892.7’8503--dc23
2013007540
CIP
New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper,
and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability.
Series design by Titus Nemeth.
Typeset in Tasmeem, using DecoType Naskh and Emiri.
Typesetting and digitization by Stuart Brown.
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Table of Contents
Letter from the General Editor iii
Leg Over Leg, Volume Three 1
Contents of the Book 4
Firing Up a Furnace 8
Love and Marriage 52
Contagion 108
Analepsis 126
Travel, and the Correction of a Common Misconception 134
A Banquet and Various Kinds of Hot Sauce 158
That Stinging Sensation You Feel When You Get Hot Sauce up Your
Nose 174
Dreams 176
The Second Dream 184
The Third Dream 190
Physicking the Foul of Breath 200
A Voyage and a Conversation 214
A Maqāmah to Make One Stand 250
Raveningly Ravenously Famished 272
The Journey from the Monastery 280
Ecstasy 288
An Incitement to Nudity 290
A Drain 300
Assorted Wonders 326
A Metropolitan Theft 344
Notes 353
Glossary 381
Index 385
About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute 394
About the Typefaces 395
About the Editor–Translator 396
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Leg Over Leg
Volume Three