كتاب
الساق على الساق
فى ما هو الفارياق
فارس الشدياق
المجلد الرابع
Leg over Leg
or
The Turtle in the Tree
concerning
The Fāriyāq
What Manner of Creature Might He Be
by
Fāris al-Shidyāq
Volume Four
Edited and translated by
Humphrey Davies
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York and London
Table of Contents
Letter from the General Editor
Chapter Three: Assorted Pleas for Mercy
Chapter Four: The Rules for Retelling
Chapter Five: The Superiority of Women
Chapter Seven: Compare and Contrast
Chapter Eight: A Voyage Festinate and Language Incomprehensibly and Inscrutably Intricate
Chapter Ten: A Passage and an Explanation
Chapter Eleven: A Translation and Some Advice
Chapter Twelve: Philosophical Reflections
Chapter Thirteen: A Maqāmah to Make You Walk
Chapter Fourteen: Elegy for a Son
Chapter Sixteen: The Tyrannical Behavior of the English
Chapter Seventeen: A Description of Paris
Chapter Eighteen: A Complaint and Complaints
Chapter Nineteen: A Metropolitan Theft and Miscellaneous Events
The Poem for Sultan ʿAbd al-Majīd Khān, may God preserve his might
The Presumptive Poem in Praise of Paris and the Prescriptive Poem in Dispraise of It
The Poem in Which He Eulogized the Honorable and Ennobled Emir ʿAbd Al-Qādir Ibn Muḥyī Al-Dīn
The Poem in Which He Eulogized the Honorable and Ennobled Ṣubḥī Bayk, Of Noble Lineage and Line, in Islāmbūl
The Eulogy He Wrote to the Virtuous and Wise Priest Ghubrāʾīl Jubārah
A Poem on Gambling
Room Poems
Poems of Separation
A List of the Synonymous and Lexically Associated Words in This Book
Table Showing the Mistakes in the Probative Verses in the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī
Translator’s Afterword
Chronology: al-Shidyāq, the Fāriyāq, and Leg over Leg
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Further Reading
About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
About this E-book
About the Editor-Translator
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
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