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Leg over Leg - Volume Three (Hardcover, abridged edition)
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Leg over Leg - Volume Three (Hardcover, abridged edition)
Series: Library of Arabic Literature
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The life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'-the alter ego of
the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq 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
relationships between men and women, the manners and customs of
Europeans and Middle Easterners, and the differences between
contemporary European and Arabic literatures. Al-Shidyaq also
celebrates the genius and beauty of the classical Arabic language.
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 its
"obscenity," and later editions were often abridged. This is the
first English translation of the work and reproduces the original
Arabic text, published under the author's supervision in 1855.
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