LEG OVER LEG OR THE TURTLE IN THE TREE CONCERNING THE FARIYAQ 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 Providor Faris ibn Yusuf al-Shidyaq (Volumes One and Two) Leg Over Leg is a work of /5. · Akin to Sterne and Rabelais in his satirical outlook and technical inventiveness, al-Shidyaq produced in Leg over Leg a work that is unique and unclassifiable. It was initially widely condemned for its attacks on authority, its religious skepticism, and Brand: New York University Press. The complete review's Review. The first volume of the four-volume translation of Leg Over Leg came as a revelation. Whatever familiarity with and preconceptions about modern Arabic literature the reader has, and brings to this nineteenth-century work, Leg Over Leg overturns them. This is a foundational text that most of us weren't aware of -- and even those who had heard about it but couldn.
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The life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'—the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-ShidyaqLeg over Leg recounts the life, from birth t. 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. Leg Over Leg: Volume One. 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.
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