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

shaving by

sleeping with

teeth

two pounds on a woman’s rump

ugly ones

unavailable women

vanity

veiled woman

virgins

virtue

votive offerings

vulvas and vaginas

warmth, bodily

wives

wives, unfaithful

wives, words for

words for

See also girls

wonders, words for

woods/trees, words for

work

world literature, theory of

wretchedness compared to leisure

writers, attacks on

writing, pleasures of

Yanṣur, Khawājā, the Fāriyāq’s letter to

Yanṣur, Khawājā, the Fāriyāq’s visits to

Yaʿqūb (Jacob)

al-Yazīdī

al-Yāzijī, Ibrāhīm

Yūnus (Jonah)

Yūsuf (father of [Aḥmad] Fāris al-Shidyāq)

al-Zamakhsharī

Zayd

Zayd and ʿAmr

Zaydān, Jurjī

Zaynab

Zubaydah

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Humphrey Davies is an award-winning translator of some twenty works of modern Arabic literature, among them Alaa Al-Aswany’s The Yacoubian Building and Elias Khoury’s The Gate of the Sun . He has also made a critical edition, translation, and lexicon of the Ottoman-period Hazz al-quḥūf bi-sharḥ qaṣīd Abī Shādūf ( Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded ) by Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī and compiled with a colleague an anthology entitled Al-ʿāmmiyyah al-miṣriyyah al-maktūbah: mukhtārāt min 1400 ilā 2009 ( Egyptian Colloquial Writing: selections from 1400 to 2009 ). He read Arabic at the University of Cambridge, received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and, previous to undertaking his first translation in 2003, worked for social development and research organizations in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Sudan. He is affiliated with the American University in Cairo, where he lives.

Classical Arabic Literature

Selected and translated by Geert Jan Van Gelder

A Treasury of Virtues , by al-Qāḍī al-Quḍāʿī

Edited and translated by Tahera Qutbuddin

The Epistle on Legal Theory , by al-Shāfiʿī

Edited and translated by Joseph E. Lowry

Leg over Leg , by Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq

Edited and translated by Humphrey Davies

Virtues of the Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal , by Ibn al-Jawzī

Edited and translated by Michael Cooperson

The Epistle of Forgiveness , by Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī

Edited and translated by Geert Jan Van Gelder and Gregor Schoeler

The Principles of Sufism , by ʿĀʾishah al-Bāʿūnīyah

Edited and translated by Th. Emil Homerin

The Expeditions , by Maʿmar ibn Rāshid

Edited and translated by Sean W. Anthony

Two Arabic Travel Books

Accounts of China and India , by Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī

Edited and translated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Mission to the Volga , by Ahmad Ibn Faḍlān

Edited and translated by James Montgomery

Disagreements of the Jurists , by al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān

Edited and translated by Devin Stewart

Consorts of the Caliphs , by Ibn al-Sāʿī

Edited by Shawkat M. Toorawa and translated by the Editors of the Library of Arabic Literature

What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us , by Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī

Edited and translated by Roger Allen

The Life and Times of Abū Tammām , by Abū Bakr al-Ṣūlī

Edited and translated by Beatrice Gruendler