Ahmad al-Shidyaq - Leg over Leg - Volumes Three and Four

subject to God

vizier of

kiss, kissing, among Arabs

the backside

children

among Franks

between lovers/spouses

withheld by husband

knowledge; amount of, decreed by fate

and books

buying

as the cause of numbness

lack of

about one’s neighbors

obliterating that of former generations

pursuit of

raising offspring with

of the ways and languages of others

Lamartine

lament

landlady, landladies

language, languages; Arabic

of the body

contorted use

corrupt dialects

created by men to oppress women

English

excessive use of

of the Fāriyāq

as female

French

ignorance of foreign

knowledge of that of the Franks

lame

learning foreign

oddities of, in Leg over Leg

oriental

speaking one’s own

latrine, latrines

Le Havre

Ledos

Leghorn

Levant, Levantines

London

amazing sights in

customs of

description of, by the Fāriyāq

doctors of

the Fāriyāq meeting with the metropolitan in

letters of recommendation from

living in

as compared to Paris

people of

prices in

thoughts of

travel to

women of

Londra. See also London

love

of a bachelor

of the beloved

among blacks

for children

of cloaks

of color

of conversation

desire for, when seeing adornments

of “dotting”

becoming ensnared by

every good thing should make

falling in

the Fāriyāq in

among Franks

for one’s husband

for someone other than one’s husband

infidelity

of intercourse

longer of, women

mechanism of control

nature

pain of

physical effects

platonic

poetry

of praise and flattery

promiscuity, as conducive to

separation

regarding imitation in as shameful

sickness

sincere in

songs

of strangers

Titter-Making Poems

ʿUdhrī

in women

of women

talk of, between women

of talking

for one’s wife

for someone other than one’s wife

words for

words related to

lover, lovers, celibacy

degrees of love

the Fāriyāq as

letters

multiple

pleasure

poems and songs

rejection

requited love

separation

tricks to bring together

types

women, sexual appetite of

Luqmān the Wise

Maʿbad

Madame Ditzia

Maghreb

maid(s)

Majnūn Laylā

male, males; attendants

conformity with female

constraints of language, constructed by

created, for women

entering into the mind of women

entering into rooms with women

jealous

judge

owl

reprobates

singers

visitors

women talking about

young admirers. See also man, men, menfolk

Malta. See also The Island of the Foul of Breath

Mamdūd ibn ʿAbd al-Wāsiṭ al-Rabbānī

al-Maʾmūn

man, men, menfolk

beards

Christian, attitude toward wives

definition

diseases

disharmony, al-Fāriyāq’s warnings against

dress

impotence

infidelity

jealousy

Jewish

kissing

love

marriage

marriage, arrangement of

marriage to young girls

Muslim and Christian

nature

poverty

promises

seduction

suffering

turning into women upon marriage

on the verge of marriage, description of

wealth

wives, bad behavior toward

wives, spending on

women, dancing with

women, dislike for

women, equals of men

women, need for

women, men’s position over

women, cause of sin

women’s attraction to

women’s backsides, attraction to

women’s flirtation with

women’s knowledge of

women’s wiles, victims of

maqāmah, maqāmah s

Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī

Market-man, Market-woman, Market-men (Maronite and Roman Catholic clergy)

markets

Marrāsh, Fatḥallāh

marriage, married, adversities of

age of

alliance

benefits of

benefits of, to an ugly woman

A Book on the Laws of

couples

consummation

description of man on the verge of

dissolution

among Egyptian Christians

of the Fāriyāq

among Franks

of handsome young men to ugly middle-aged women

legitimate

madness, leading to

a man doing a woman a favor by

men

obligations

in Paris

pleasure

to a pretty woman

reasons for

re-consummate

social good

speaking of

by villagers

words for

Marseilles

masculine

al-Mashdūd

Master of the Chamber, dream interpretation

incitement to public nudity

letter to the Fāriyāq’s wife

travel to Damascus

visit from the Persian

Melkite

men; books useful to

chased by women

created to serve the needs of women

desiring women

dress of

of England

expressing the thoughts of

generality of

great

love of “scripting”

making excuses

married

morals of

outnumber women

outnumbered by women

in poetry

scholarly

strive in pursuit of bliss

ways of

words for. See also husband(s)

merchant

metropolitan, metropolitans (religious leader), Atanāsiyūs al-Tutūnjī

books, banned

celibacy

Jirmānūs Farḥāt

occupation

reverence for among the English

Midian, children of

Mikhallaʿ, Mīkhāʾīl

Milton

ministers

Molière

monastery, monasteries

monk, monks, celibacy

cells of (term for buttocks)

in a dream

false statements concerning

the Fāriyāq at the monastery

occupation

scholarship

women’s love for

Moses

mother, mothers

in the Bible

children, appearance

children, love for

children, marriage of

children’s spouses, spying on

in Damascus and Cairo

of the Fāriyāq’s wife

kissing in front of

nursing

pregnancy and childbirth

Mountain, the (Mount Lebanon)

mourning

Muʿaṭṭilites

Muḥammad ibn al-Sayyid ʿUmar al-Tūnusī

mules

Mūsā

Muslim

mustache

child’s toy

in a dream

of the Fāriyāq

trimming/shaving

Mustafā Pasha

Musurus

al-Mutanabbī. See also Abū l-Ṭayyib al-Mutanabbī

Muʿtazilites

Nabal

naḥt

al-Nakhaʿī

Naples

Nāṣīf al-Yāzijī

newspaper

Newton

Nile

Nīnah, Khawājā

non-Arab

occidentals

offspring

Old Testament

oneiromancer, Oneiromancer’s Chamber, criticism of

customs

the Fāriyāq as

master of the chamber, dreams of

orientals

Oxford

Palais Royal

pantaloons

Papal States

parents

Paris, Parisienne, Parisians

air of

beauty of

depravity in

people of

poor of

praise of

travel to

women of

passion

peasant(s)

Perrault

Perron

Persia, Persian

Peter

Pharaoh

physician, physicians

anxieties

the Fāriyāq as

illness, of the Fāriyāq

love/marriage, metaphors related to

love poetry by

Plato

pleasure, pleasures, of animals

denying

of the Fāriyāqiyyah

in jewelry

in language and grammar

of men

from others

of Paris

physical

places of

of the rich