Arabic literature, as well as anthologies and thematic readers. Books in the series are edited and translated by distinguished scholars of Arabic and Islamic studies, and are published in parallel-text format with Arabic and English on facing pages. The Library of Arabic Literature includes texts from the pre-Islamic era to the cusp of the modern period, and encompasses a wide range of genres, including poetry, poetics, fiction, religion, philosophy, law, science, history, and historiography.
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Philip F. Kennedy
General Editor, Library of Arabic Literature
كتاب
الساق على الساق فى ما هو الفارياق
او
ايام وشهور واعوام فى عجم العرب والاعجام
تاليف العبد الفقير الى ربه الرزاق
فارس بن يوسف الشدياق
Leg over Leg
or
The Turtle in the Tree
concerning
The Fāriyāq
What Manner of Creature Might He Be
otherwise entitled
Days, Months, and Years
spent in
Critical Examination
of
The Arabs
and
Their Non-Arab Peers
by
The Humble Dependent on His Lord the Provider
Fāris ibn Yūsuf al-Shidyāq
فهرست الكتاب
الكتاب الثانى
| الفصل الاول | فى دحرجة جلمود * |
| الفصل الثانى | فى سلام وكلام * |
| الفصل الثالث | فى انقلاع الفارياق من الاسكندرية * |
| الفصل الرابع | فى منصّة دونها غصّة * |
| الفصل الخامس | فى وصف مصر * |
| الفصل السادس | فى لا شى * |
| الفصل السابع | فى وصف مصر * |
| الفصل الثامن | فى اشعار انه انتهى وصف مصر * |
| الفصل التاسع | فيما اشرت اليه * |
| الفصل العاشر | فى طبيب * |
| الفصل الحادى عشر | فى انجاز ما وعدنا به * |
| الفصل الثانى عشر | فى ابيات سَريّة * |
| الفصل الثالث عشر | فى مقامة مقعدة * |
| الفصل الرابع عشر | فى ذلك الموضع * ☜ |
| الفصل الخامس عشر | فى ذلك الموضع بعينه * |
| الفصل السادس عشر | فى تمام قصة القسيس * |
| الفصل السابع عشر | فى رثآء حمار * |
| الفصل الثامن عشر | فى الوان مختلفة من المرض * |
| الفصل التاسع عشر | فى دائرة هذا الكون ومركز هذا الكتاب * |
| الفصل العشرون | فى معجزات وكرامات * |
Contents of the Book
Book Two
Chapter 1: Rolling a Boulder
Chapter 2: A Salutation and a Conversation
Chapter 3: The Extraction of the Fāriyāq from Alexandria, by Sail
Chapter 4: A Throne to Gain Which Man Must Make Moan
Chapter 5: A Description of Cairo
Chapter 6: Nothing
Chapter 7: A Description of Cairo
Chapter 8: Notice that the Description of Cairo is Ended
Chapter 9: That to Which I Have Alluded
Chapter 10: A Doctor
Chapter 11: The Fulfillment of What He Promised Us
Chapter 12: Poems for Princes
Chapter 13: A Maqāmah to Make You Sit
Chapter 14: An Explanation of the Obscure Words in the Preceding Maqāmah and Their Meanings
Chapter 15: Right There! ☞
Chapter 16: Right Here!
Chapter 17: Elegy for a Donkey
Chapter 18: Various Forms of Sickness
Chapter 19: The Circle of the Universe and the Center of This Book
Chapter 20: Miracles and Supernatural Acts
الكتاب
