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By Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq,Humphrey Davies

Leg over Leg recounts the lifestyles, from beginning to center age, of ‘the Fariyaq,’ regulate ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal determine within the highbrow and literary historical past of the trendy Arab international. The continuously edifying and sometimes hilarious adventures of the Fariyaq, as he strikes from his local Lebanon to Egypt, Malta, Tunis, England and France, give you the writer with grist for wide-ranging discussions of the highbrow and social problems with his time, together with the lack of knowledge and corruption of the Lebanese non secular and secular institutions, freedom of sense of right and wrong, women’s rights, sexual relationships among women and men, the manners and customs of Europeans and center Easterners, and the variations among modern ecu and Arabic literatures. Al-Shidyaq additionally celebrates the genius and wonder 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 paintings that's exact and unclassifiable. It used to be before everything commonly condemned for its assaults on authority, its spiritual skepticism, and its “obscenity,” and later versions have been usually abridged. this is often the 1st English translation of the paintings and reproduces the unique Arabic textual content, released below the author’s supervision in 1855.

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