Ahmad al-Shidyaq: Leg over Leg: Volumes One and Two

air in

Arabs in

Bag-man/Bag-men in

Christians in

dress in

European banks

the Fāriyāq in

the Fāriyāq’s journey to

the Fāriyāq’s voyage/travel to

food eaten in

Franks in

headwear in

hospitality in

publishing industry

Reuters’ office

Turks in

waters in

women in

ʿAlī

al-Āmidī

al-Andalus

al-Anfūshī

Al-Ghurar al-ḥisān fī tārīkh ḥawādith al-zamān (al-Shidyāq)

Al-Jāsūs ʿalā l-Qāmūs ( Spying on the Dictionary ) (al-Shidyāq)

Al-Jawāʾib ( Tidings from Afar ) (periodical)

Al-Jinān (periodical)

Al-Muzhir fī l-lughah ( The Luminous Work on Language ) (al-Suyūṭī)

Al-Waqāʾiʿ al-Miṣriyyah ( Egyptian Events ) (periodical)

Amadeus VIII, Pope

Ambrose, Saint

al-Āmidī

Amīn, Qāsim

ʿAmr

ʿAmr ibn Luḥayy

anecdotes about poets

anqāṭ

Anṣārīs

ʿAntar

aphrodisiacs

Arab nationalism

“Arab rediscovery of Europe”

Arabic journalism

Arabic language, Baḥth al-maṭālib ( The Discussion of Issues )

distinguishing feature of

the Fāriyāq as teacher of

Frankish pronunciation of

love and

Maronite patriarchs

oddities

priest’s pronunciation of

Qurʾan revealed in

rare words

students from the Mountain and

synonyms

translations into

Arabic literature, literary modernity

maqāmāt

renaissance in ( see Nahḍah ); riwāyah (“novel”)

sajʿ (rhymed prose)

translation and philology to

tropes. See also rhymed prose

Arabic poetry

Arabic publishing industry

Arabic script

Arabs

ʿAshūr, Raḍwā

al-Aṣmaʿī

aromas/perfumes, words for

asses

Atanāsiyūs al-Tutūnji

atheists

attire

authors

ʿAwaḍ, Luwīs

Bāb al-Iʿrāb ( Gateway to Grammar ) (Jirmānūs Farḥāt)

the bag, Bag-man/Bag-men’s preoccupation with

the Fāriyāq’s burden

point of

bag, women’s

Bag-man/Bag-men (Protestant missionaries), in Alexandria

the bag, preoccupation with

in Cairo

damage done by

English queens

the Fāriyāq and

indifference to people’s troubles

influence

language

Market-men

Market-man/Market-men, feuds with

Market-woman/ Market-women

payment by

pork-eating

prototype of

saddlebags

serving girl/maid

tools of the trade

weeping, instruction in

wife beating by

wife of a

Baguettes

Baḥth al-maṭālib ( The Discussion of Issues )

Baʿīr Bayʿar

Basra

bawdiness

bayk (“bey”)

beardless boys

Benedict VII, Pope

Benedict VIII, Pope

Benedict IX, Pope

Bible

“Biblemen,”. See also Bag-man/Bag-men

Bilqīs

Bion

birds, words for

bird of a feather

Birjīs Bārīs ( The Paris Jupiter ) (periodical)

bishops

blackness (skin color)

bloodletting

body parts

Boniface VII, Pope

Book of Psalms

books, prologues to

bread, baked by monks

words for

the British

breastfeeding

Buhlūl

buildings, words for

Bulāq Press

Būlus Musʿad

burning, kinds of

al-Bustī

Buṭrus Yūsuf Ḥawwā

Cairo

air in

Bag-man/Bag-men in

catamites in

Christians in

curiosities of

Domestic Services Office

the Fāriyāq in

girls in

hashish use

hospitality in

joking in

lutes

markets in

men in

nighttime lanterns

people of

plague in

poets in

police chief

prices in

scholars in

singing in

trees unique to ʿAyn Shams suburb

Cambridge, England

carrying devices, words for

castles, words for

Catholicism. See Maronite Catholicism/Catholics

Celestine III, Pope

chain-man

chambers, words for

Chateaubriand, François-René

children

death of

children of cultivators

children’s resemblance to their fathers

China

Christ

Christian religion

books of

Christian shaykhs

Christianity

introduction into Frankish lands. See also Maronite Catholicism/Catholics

Christians

in Alexandria

best honorific for

in Cairo

divorce

in Egypt

imitation of Muslims

monasteries

monks

polite address to. See also priests

church books

Church Missionary Society (CMS)

churches

Clement XV, Pope

clothes/clothes making, words for

CMS Press

conception

confession, women during

Coptic church

Copts

critics

craftsmen, earthly

Crescentius

crows

cultivators (farmers), happiness of

curiosity

Daʿd

Damascene territories

Damascus

Ḍayf, Shawqī

Days of Barbarism

the dead, praise of

desires

the Devil

Diʿbil

dinars

diversity of life

disease

divorce

expression associated with

the Fāriyāq’s poem about

maqāmah about

Muslims

pre-Islamic divorce formula

scholars

doctors/physicians

advice concerning women

an impotent doctor

fatness of

goodness of

scholars compared to

treatment of the Fāriyāq

Domestic Services Office

donkey(s), elegy for

emirs and

the Fāriyāq’s journey with a

Frankish description of

lament for a

meaning of

men’s thoughts about

at monasteries

Doughty, Charles Montagu

dreams

dress

drink(s), words for

Druze, characteristics

Christians living under

eating habits

Emir of the Mountain

the Fāriyāq

moderation

revolt (1810)

Druze church

Duprat, Benjamin

Durrat al-thīn fī awhām al-qissīsīn ( Prize Pearl of the Fishery concerning the Delusions of the Clerisy )

dwellings, words for

earth, revolution of

Eastern churches

ecclesiastical authority

titles

education, [Aḥmad] Fāris al-Shidyāq’s

education, the Fāriyāq’s

education, preteens’

education, women’s

Egypt, [Aḥmad] Fāris al-Shidyāq in

Alexandria (see Alexandria); “Arab rediscovery of Europe”

Cairo

Coptic Christians in

cotton industry

European banks, travelers

the Fāriyāq’s journey to

hayḍah epidemic

hospitality in

Jews in

mail delivery in

people of

Protestant missionaries

scholars in

as a state

Upper Egypt. See also Alexandria, Cairo

Egypt

Egyptians

Emir of the Mountain

emir(s), donkeys and

a Druze emir

the Fāriyāq’s boy servant taken into service of

grammatical studies

language attributed to

poets

spending on education

sword-carrying followers

England

English notables, two

English queens

enslavement

envy

equality between men and women

Eugene IV, Pope

Europeans

evil

exegetes

faces, words for

al-Farazdaq

Farḥāt, Jirmānūs

the Fāriyāq (protagonist of Leg over Leg), Aḥmad, Shaykh

Alexandria, in Alexandria

journey/voyage/travel to

bad luck

the bag, burden of

Bag-man/Bag-men

Baʿīr Bayʿar