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

about Alexandria

in the Fāriyāq’s letter to Khawājā Yanṣur

Khawājā Yanṣur on

maqāmah in

al-Risālah al-Sanūsiyyah ( The Senoussi Treatise )

riwāyah (“novel”)

Rome

Roper, Geoffrey

Rujūm wa-ghassāq ilā Fāris al-Shidyāq ( Fire and Brimstone upon Fāris al-Shidyāq ) (periodical)

al-Rukākāt

sacrament

saddlebags

St. Matthew

St. Paul

sajʿ (rhymed prose)

al-Sakkākī

Ṣāliḥ (prophet)

salvation

Saul

scholarly knowledge

scholars

on a distinguishing feature of Arabic

in Cairo

as critics of the Fāriyāq

debate with a Muʿtazilite

divorce

doctors/physicians compared to

in Egypt

erudition, demonstrations of

the Fāriyāq as a

health of

the ignorant compared to

of Islam

Islamic law

market traders’ hats

physical weakness

Qayʿar Qayʿār

of religion

women

scholarship

scholarship, monks’

schools

sciences

scribes, the Fāriyāq as

on leisure compared to wretchedness

sea-going vessels, words for

second skins

Selim, Samah

senses

sentences

Sergius III, Pope

servants

servitude

sex, churchwardens’ interest in

Sharḥ al-Kāfī ( The Commentary on the Kāfī )

Sharḥ al-mashāriq (Ibn Mālik)

Sharḥ al-Sullam ( The Commentary on the Ladder ), study of

Shaykh (term of address)

she-ass

al-Shidyāq, [Aḥmad] Fāris

Al-Jawāʾib ( Tidings from Afar ) (periodical)

alter ego ( see the Fāriyāq); Al-Waqāʾiʿ al-Miṣriyyah ( Egyptian Events ) (periodical)

Arabic journalism

Bible, translation of

birth

British citizenship

Bulāq Press

Buṭrus Ḥawwā

Church Missionary Society (CMS)

conversions

death

education/studies

equality between men and women

father (Yūsuf)

Gospels, refutation of

Jawāʾib Press

liberalism

literary career

Maronite Catholicism/Catholics

modernity

monographs about

Nahḍah

occupations

oeuvre

personality

poetry

printing industry experience

Protestant missionaries

Protestantism

al-Shihābī, Ḥaydar

skepticism

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK)

travels

— in Alexandria

Cairo

Cambridge

Egypt

England

Istanbul/Constantinople

London

Malta

Paris

Tunis

— personal relations,ʿAbd al-Qādir

Aḥmad Bāy

Duprat, Benjamin

Jarrett, Thomas

Lee, Samuel

Marrāsh, Fransīs Fatḥallāh

Nicholson, John

Perceval, Caussin de

al-Tūnusī, Khayr al-Dīn

Victoria, Queen

al-Yāzijī, Ibrāhīm

— writings, Al-Ghurar al-ḥisān fī tārīkh ḥawādith al-zamān

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

Kanz al-lughāt ( The Treasury of Languages )

Leg over Leg (see Leg over Leg)

Muntahā l-ʿajab fī khaṣāʾiṣ lughat al-ʿArab ( Wonder’s Apogee concerning Every Arab Linguistic Particularity )

Sirr al-Layāl fī l-qalb wa-l-ibdāl ( The Secrets of Morphology and Metathesis )

Travel Narrative of the Known Conditions of Malta

Uncovering the Hidden Arts of Europe

al-Shidyāq, Asʿad

al-Shidyāq, Salīm

Shifāʾ ( The Cure ) (Ibn Sīnā)

al-Shihābī, Ḥaydar

Shiẓāẓ

Shklovsky, Victor

Sībawayhi

sickness

sight (vision)

Sijjīn

sin

Sirr al-Layāl fī l-qalb wa-l-ibdāl ( The Secrets of Morphology and Metathesis ) (al-Shidyāq)

skepticism

skin color

skin flaps

sleepers

snow

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK)

sons, nature of

Sons of Ḥannā

spleen

stars

Starkey, Paul

Stephen VI, Pope

Stephen VIII, Pope

Sterne, Laurence

stones, words for

Suʿād

Sulaymān (Solomon)

al-Ṣūlī, Wardah ([Aḥmad] Fāris al-Shidyāq’s wife)

sun, rising of

Sunnis

al-Suyūṭī

sweet things, words for

Syriac language

al-Taftazānī

Tageldin, Shaden

taghlīb

al-Talkhīṣ fī l-maʿānī ( The Epitome on Tropes )

tamaddun

tambour

ṭanāṭīr

teacher, the Fāriyāq as

teachers

Theodora (Marozia’s mother)

thinking

thirst

time

Timothy

titles (honorific)

translators

Travel Narrative of the Known Conditions of Malta (al-Shidyāq)

travelers, happiness of

trees/woods, words for

tribulation

Tripoli

Tristam Shandy (Sterne)

troopers

tropes

Tunis

Tunisia

al-Tūnusī, Khayr al-Dīn

turbans

Turkish lady

Turkish trooper

Turks

Ṭuways

ugly people

Uḥayḥah

ʿUlayyān

Umm ʿAmr

Uncovering the Hidden Arts of Europe (al-Shidyāq)

undercapitalized parasites

Upper Egypt

Urban VI, Pope

Urbanus II, Pope

veil-passion

veiled woman

veils, catamites’

decent women’s

girls

imagination

poem about

protection for

sodomites

ugliness concealed by

words for

verbs, proper use of

viceroy of Egypt

Victoria, Queen

virgins

Voyage en Amérique (Chateaubriand)

vulvas and vaginas

al-Wāḥidī

al-Waqāʾiʿ al-Miṣriyyah

whores

wise men

wives

unfaithful

words for

women

alcohol

in Alexandria

attention paid to

author’s intention toward

backside

bag, their

bawdiness

belly

bewitching looks

bodies and faces compared

boldness

breastfeeding

in Cairo

cheeks

in China

Christianity

clemency

clothed, fully

conception

coquettishness

creation of

desirable ones

divinity

doctor’s advice concerning

dreams of

education

in Egypt

emir’s daughter

equality with men

essence

European depictions

evil

eyes

faces

fantasies about

the Fāriyāq as a woman

fingers

flirtatiousness

as food

Frankish women

generosity

great/good actions/undertakings

heads of state

honor, selling their

horns worn by

household management

husbands, disputes with

husbands’ infidelities

ignorance

imraʾah

infidelity

legs

liberality

lips

longevity

on Malta

Market-woman/Market-women

men, knowledge of

men, thoughts about

men, relationship with

men compared to

of the Mountain

mouths

naked

necks

nobility

noses

nuns

payment in kind

poets

poetry about

poetry by

praiseworthy and blameworthy qualities

pregnant women

presence of

pretty ones

priests’ servants

prostitutes

Qāmūs (al-Firūzābādī)

quick-witted woman on non-Arabs

reading

recalcitrance

religious belief

rhetoric

rhymed prose

salesmen and

scholars

seductiveness

sensuality

sharp-witted Sunni woman