Leg over + The life, birth, and early years of ‘the Fariyaq’—the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
The Leg Over Leg describes the life from birth until middle old age, of ‘the fariyaq an alter ego that was the alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a significant figure in the cultural as well as literary heritage of the current Arab world.
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The often entertaining and funny experiences of Fariyaq in his journey from his homeland of Lebanon and travels to Egypt, Malta, Tunis, England and France, offer the author a source of an opportunity to discuss a variety of the social and intellectual questions of his day which include the ignorance and corruption of Lebanese establishments, both secular and religious as well as freedom of conscience, the rights of women, sexual relations between women and men as well as the social and cultural norms and customs of Europeans as well as Middle Easterners and the distinctions between modern European as well as Arabic literatures. Al-Shidyaq also celebrates the power as well as the beauty classic Arabic language.
Like Sterne or Rabelais with his humorous view and technical ingenuity, al-Shidyaq produced in Leg over Lega work that is distinctive and inaccessible to classification. The work was initially criticized because of its attack on authority as well as its religious skepticism as well as its “obscenity,” and later editions were frequently reduced. It is the very first English version of the book and is a faithful reproduction of its original Arabic text that was first published under the supervision of the author in 1855.
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Product details
- ASIN : B00NI5EFTG
- Publisher : NYU Press; Abridged edition
- Publication date : June 6, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 704 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Print length : 468 pages
- Lending : Not Enabled
Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq (1805 or 1806-1887) was a pivotal figure in the modern age of Arabic literature. Born into an influential Maronite family of Lebanon Al-Shidyaq was pioneering poet, publisher as well as an essayist, lexicographer, and translator. The name is “the founder of Arabic journalism” al-Shidyaq played an important part in modernizing and reviving the Arabic language.
Humphrey Davies is an award-winning translator of Arabic literature from the Ottoman period until the present. The authors he has translated are Elias Khoury, Naguib Mahfouz and the Alaa Al Aswany Bahaa Taher Mourid Barghouti Muhammad Mustagab, Gamal al-Ghitani, Hamdy el-Gazzar,
Leg over – Khaled Al-Berry as well as Ahmed Alaidy, as well as Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq and Yusuf al-Shirbini for the Library of Arabic Literature. He has also written together with Madiha Doss an anthology of works in Egyptian informal Arabic. The author lives in Cairo. This text is referring to an alternative kindle edition.
