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

bartering away his inheritance

beauty, removed from

beliefs

birth

book of psalms

brother

in Cairo

childhood education

as copier/scribe

countryside, travel in

critics of

doctor’s treatment of

donkey, journey with a

Druze

Egypt, journey to

exile from his homeland

Franks

Frankish dress worn by

girl neighbor, love for

grammar

grandfather

handwriting

home town, attack on

horsemanship

as inn-keeper

Island of Scoundrels, travel to

Maḥmūd, Shaykh

on Malta

Malta, voyage to

manners

market trader (bishop) and

marriage, consideration of

monastery, visit to a

mother

Muhammad, Shaykh

Muṣṭafā, Shaykh

name

obscurity, preference for

parents

peddler and

on poetry

poetry by

as polemicist

priest, conversation with

rare words

as a scholar

scholarship

servants of

sicknesses

speech defect

study of grammar

study of jurisprudence

study of Kanz ( The Treasure )

study of prosody

study of al-Risālah al-Sanūsiyyah ( The Senoussi Treatise )

study of theology

tambour

as a teacher

title for

as traveling salesman

travels

as tutor to emir’s daughter

wife

wisdom of

woman, life as a

writing for profit

writing, foreswearing of

Yanṣur, letter to Khawājā

Yanṣur, visit with Khawājā

the Fāriyāqiyyah (protagonist of Leg over Leg)

farmers (cultivators), happiness of

al-Farrāʾ

al-Firūzābādī, Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb

fish, words for

flowers

food, roundness and

food, women as

food eaten in Alexandria

foods, words for

forgiveness

Form

Formosus, Bishop of Porto

Frankish authors

Frankish countries

Frankish description of donkeys

Frankish dress

Frankish headwear

Frankish kings

Frankish lands, Christianity in

priests in

Frankish merchants

Frankish queens

Frankish shaykhs

Frankish titles/honorifics

Frankish women

Franks, in Alexandria

ancient poetry

charity from

Egyptians’ regard for

the Fāriyāq

hospitality

letters of introduction

limbs

in the Middle East

plague avoidance measures

pronunciation of Arabic

recordkeeping by

Frederick II, King of Germany

French authors on popes

fungi, words for

games/diversions, words for

garments, words for

Genesis (book)

al-Ghabab ( The Wattle )

girls, a Bag-man’s serving girl

beautiful serving girls

in Cairo

a Copt’s daughter

desirable

a doctor’s wife

Emir of the Mountain

eyes

faces of pretty girls

the Fāriyāq’s servant girl

garments for

Khayzurān

love of

milk for fattening

monks

neighboring

veils

on wedding days

words for

God

good

Gospels

grammar, works on

grammarians

grammatical studies

Grand Panjandrum of the Panegyricon

Great Catholicos

Great Christian Master Physician

greed

Greek Orthodox church

Gregory VII, Pope

al-Ḥakākah fī l-rakākah ( The Leavings Pile Concerning Lame Style ) (Atanāsiyūs al-Tutūnji)

al-Hamadhānī

handkerchiefs

handwriting

happiest trade

al-Ḥarīrī

hashish

al-Hāwif ibn Hifām (character in Leg over Leg)

Ḥawwā, Buṭrus Yūsuf

head wounds

headwear, in Alexandria

Frankish

market traders’

of Market-men of the Levant

tarbush

health

heart

heaven, words for

Henry IV, King of Germany

Himyaritic lands

Hind

History of Arabic-Language Literature, A (Jurjī Zaydān)

horns

bulls’

dragging men by their

husbands’

rams with and without

Hosea

hospitality

household items, words for

houses, words for

Hugh, King of Arles

humanity, common

hunger

husbands

Ibn al-ʿAbbād, al-Ṣāḥib

Ibn al-Athīr

Ibn Aybak al-Ṣafadī, Khalīl

Ibn Hishām

Ibn Mālik

Ibn Manẓūr

Ibn al-Muʿtazz

Ibn al-Nabīh

Ibn Nubātah

Ibn Sīnā

idiots, language attributed to

idols, words for

ignorance

ignorant, the

scholars compared to

Ilyās

imraʾah

infidelity, women’s

inheritance

Innocent IV, Pope

Irene

ʿĪsā

Islam, conversion to

Islam, scholars of

Islam and the West (Lewis)

Islamic astronomy

Islamic lands

Islamic law

Island of Scoundrels

Istanbul/Constantinople

Jacobite church

jāmiʿ

Jarīr

Jarrett, Thomas

Jawāʾib Press

jealousy

jewelry, words for

Jewish writers

Jews(s)

divorce

in Egypt

the Fāriyāq called a

fish not eaten by

midrās of

Juḥā

John VIII, Pope

John X, Pope

John XI, Pope

John XII, Pope

John XIII, Pope

John XV, Pope

John XIX, Pope

John XXIII, Pope

jurists

Kaaba of Mecca

Kanz ( The Treasure )

Kanz al-lughāt ( The Treasury of Languages ) (al-Shidyāq)

karshūnī

Khawājā (term of address)

Khurāfah

al-Kisāʾī

Kitāb Muwāzanat al-ḥālatayn wa-murāzanat al-ālatayn ( The Book of Balancing the Two States and Comparing the Two Straits ) (Abū Rushd ‘Brains’ ibn Ḥazm)

Kitchen People

al-Kuʿaykāt

kubaybah / kubbah

Kufa

al-Kulliyyāt ( The Universals )

Lamartine, Alphonse de

language, love of

language, religious belief and

language of masters

lanterns

laws

Laylā

Lebanon. See also Mountain, the

Lee, Samuel

Leg over Leg (al-Shidyāq)

as an historical document

on Arabic language (see Arabic language)

author’s travels compared to narrator’s

chapter titles

classical erudition

cold and hot chapters

comic scenes

composition/writing of

concerns

ecclesiastical authority, attacks on

editions

emirs, lampooning of

emirs, language attributed to

equality between men and women

fault-finding readers

genres

hermeneutic mode

idiots, language attributed to

influences on

Islamic motifs

linguistic indeterminacy

maqāmāt

modernity and

narrative authority

protagonist (see the Fāriyāq)

priests, language attributed to

Proem

prose style

Qāmūs (al-Firūzābādī)

Rāfāʾīl Kaḥlā on

rare Arabic words

rhetorical devices

the self in

skepticism as guiding principle

social and political criticism

starting point

title page

as a travelogue

verisimilitude

world literature, theory of

— characters, Abū Rushd ‘Brains’ ibn Ḥazm

the Fāriyāq ( see the Fāriyāq)

the Fāriyāqiyyah

al-Hāwif ibn Hifām

leisure compared to wretchedness

lentils

Leo VI, Pope

Leo VIII, Pope

the Levant

Levantines

Lewis, Bernard

liberalism

liberality

Liberation of Women, The (Amīn)

Lisān al-ʿArab ( The Arab Tongue ) (Ibn Manẓūr)