The birth, life and early years of the Fariyaq, the alter-ego of the Arab scholar Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
The Leg Over Leg describes the life and the birth, up to middle age of “the Fariyaq,” alter the alter ego that was the alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a important figure in the intellectual as well as literary heritage of the contemporary Arab world. The ever-edifying and frequently funny stories of “the Fariyaq when he travels from his home in Lebanon towards Egypt, Malta, Tunis, England, and France
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Volumes 1 and 2 follow unhappy Fariyaq through his early years and his early education, as well as his misadventures in the monastery from Mount Lebanon, his flight to the Egypt of Muhammad ‘Ali and then his appointment to his first Arabic daily newspaper. In the course of his employment, the journalist suffers from various ailments that are in line with his advancement in the field of Arabic grammar. He also entertains with amusing musings about the manners of eating among the Druze youthful love, the snow as well as the scandals that surrounded early papal era.
The first book also shows the list of locations of the abodes of Hell as well as the various types of medieval glue, torture instruments stars, and pre-Islamic idols — come into being as the signature feature of the book.
Like Sterne as well as Rabelais for his humorist perspective and technical ingenuity, al-Shidyaq produced in Leg over Leg an original work that is distinctive and is unclassifiable. It was initially decried for the scathing attacks on authority and its religious skepticism and for its “obscenity,” and later versions were often cut down.
It is also the only fully English translation of this revolutionary work.
Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq known also as Fares Chidiac Faris Al Chidiac Arabic”Hmd frs lshdyq” ) was a writer, scholar and journalist who was raised in modern-day Lebanon. He was a Maronite Christian by birth, his later years were spent in major cities across the Arab world in which he made his profession.
He changed to Protestantism during the more than two decades was in Cairo the city of today’s Egypt between 1825 and 1848. He also was on Malta, his island, Malta. As a participant in the Arabic version of the Bible in Great Britain that was published in 1857, Faris lived and worked there for seven years before becoming an British citizen. Then he moved into Paris, France for two years at the beginning of 1850s.
There He wrote and published his most significant work.
In the late 1850s Faris relocated to Tunisia and in 1860 He made the decision to convert to Islam in 1860, assuming the initial name Ahmad. Then, moving to Istanbul later in the year to become translator upon the request from the Ottoman government. Faris also created The Arabic language newspaper. The newspaper was backed by the Ottomans, Egypt and Tunisia in the final years of publication, until the 1880s.
Faris continued to advocate Arabic culture and language and culture, despite the 19th century “Turkization” which was promoted by the Ottomans who were based in modern-day Turkey. Shidyaq is believed to be among the founders in modern Arabic literature. He wrote the bulk of his novels during his early days.
Product details
- ASIN : B010VIKTT2
- Publisher : NYU Press; Abridged edition
- Publication date : October 15, 2015
- Language : English
- File size : 1639 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Print length : 542 pages
- Lending : Not Enabled
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