Leg over Leg: Volumes One and Two

INDEX

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abbots

ʿAbd al-Jalīl

ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī

ʿAbd al-Qādir

Abīshalūm (Absalom)

Abū ʿAtāhiyah

Abū l-Baqā

Abū Nuwās

Abū Rushd ‘Brains’ ibn Ḥazm (character in Leg over Leg)

Abū Tammām

Abū l-Aswad al-Duʾalī

Abū l-ʿIbar

affections

Agag

Aḥmad Bāy

Aḥmad, Shaykh

al-Akhḍarī

Al-Bagdadi, Nadia

Alexandria, [Aḥmad] Fāris al-Shidyāq in

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

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)

logic

London

loss

love, Arabic language

breast size

of a cat

the Fāriyāq’s for a girl neighbor

hope

of language

non-Arabic languages

old hands at

stages of

triggering objects

varieties of

of young girls

young love

love poetry

low matters

Lucius II, Pope

luck

lutes

madness

Maḥmūd, Shaykh

Malta

the Fāriyāq on

the Fāriyāq’s voyage to

language spoken on

priests on

women on

mantles, words for

Maqāmāt (al-Ḥarīrī)

maqāmāt

maqāmah, about marriage/divorce

Market Boss

distress, his

indifference to people’s troubles

market traders, disputes between

market ledger

market traders

Market-man/Market-men, Bag-man/Bag-men

feuds with

damage done by

English queens

indifference to people’s troubles

of the Levant

tools of the trade

Market-woman/Market-women

Maronite Catholicism/Catholics, [Aḥmad] Fāris al-Shidyāq’s conversion back to

[Aḥmad] Fāris al-Shidyāq’s family

baptismal fonts

bishops

book of psalms

books printed by

handwriting

heretics

income of patriarchs

memorandum to Maronite patriarch

metropolitan (leader)

monks (see monks); persecution

priests (see priests); Protestant missionaries

retrogression

salvation

scholarly goals

Marozia

Marrāsh, Fransīs Fatḥallāh

marriage

the Fāriyāq considers

maqāmah about

nature of

masters

Matter

mawwāl

Mayyah

meadows, words for

meals

meat

Méditations poétiques (Lamartine)

Melkites

men, beardless boys

in Cairo

erectile dysfunction

husbands

impotent husbands

liberality

penises

poetry about

poetry by

thin men

thoughts about donkeys

wise men

women, knowledge of

women compared to

women’s equality with

women’s thoughts about

merchants, happiness of

Messiah

metaphors

metropolitan (religious leader)

Middle East, foreigners in

mildness

milk, words for kinds of

Mishāqah, Mikhāʾīl

mockery

modernity, [Aḥmad] Fāris al-Shidyāq

Arabic literary modernity

Leg over Leg (al-Shidyāq)

money

monastery

monks

abbots

age at becoming one

blameworthiness

bread baked by

donkeys among

escaped monk

at feasts

frightening

girls

happiness of

ignorance

lentils eaten by

monasticism (rahbāniyyah)

Qāmūs (al-Firūzābādī)

scholarship

Moses

Mountain, the (Mount Lebanon)

borrowing by people of

Emir of

the Fāriyāq’s father

music and other arts

women of

Muʿallim (term of address)

Muhammad ʿAlī (of Egypt)

Muḥammad ʿAlī Pasha

Muḥammad, Shaykh

mujārazah

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

musical instruments, words for

Muslim Discovery of Europe, The (Lewis)

Muslims, Christian imitation of

Copts and

divorce

of the Levant

titles (honorifics) for

Muṣṭafā, Shaykh

al-Mutanabbī

Mutawālīs

Muʿtazilite

Muzabbid

Nahḍah, [Aḥmad] Fāris al-Shidyāq

Arabic literary modernity

meanings/translations of the term

“new age” as subject

participation in global processes

print market

social and literary change

tamaddun

tradition

Western literary and cultural models

Nākir and Nakīr

Nawābigh (al-Zamakhsharī)

Nestorian church

new goods vs. old goods

New Testament

Nicholas I, Pope

Nicholson, John

Nile River

nominative case

non-Arabic languages

non-Arabs, quick-witted woman on

non-Jewish writers

Nūh (Noah)

nūn

nuns

Nuʿūmah Mosque

Occidentals

Octavianus

Old Testament

Orientalist scholars

Otto I

Otto II

Otto III

Ottoman Empire

pain

Panegyricon

panegyrics

panegyrist, a prince’s

parasites, undercapitalized

Paris

paronomasia

al-Bustī

in the Fāriyāq’s poetry

perfect paronomasia

poets

solecisms

passion

peddler, roving

Peled, Matityahu

penises

people, diversity of

People of the Cave

Perceval, Caussin de

perfumes/aromas, words for

persecution

Persian(s)

Photius

physicians. See doctors/physicians

pigs

pigs’ snouts

pious, the

places, words for various

plants, sprouting of

types of

pleasure

poetry, about blessings

about forgiveness

about gazelles

about knives

about men and women

about sin

about verse

Arabic poetry

about divorce

about veils

elegy for a donkey

by the Fāriyāq

the Fāriyāq on

by Franks

love poetry

mawwāl

by men

to Mountain residents

priests on

for princes

Proem

prose compared to

by slim poets

as a means of survival

by women

Poetry’s Destiny (Lamartine)

poets, anecdotes about

in Cairo

celebrity

characteristics

crows and

diversity among

drooling by

emirs

on leisure compared to wretchedness

the manner of most

need for critics

paronomasia

personal devils

by trade vs. by nature

women

popes, French authors on

pork

price lists

priests, adultery with a merchant’s wife

Arabic-language sermon by

Baʿīr Bayʿar’s daughter

blameworthiness

deference to

doctor’s wife’s choice of

extorting secrets from wives

the Fāriyāq’s conversation with

in Frankish lands

gambling by

language attributed to

large-nosed priest’s tale

as lovers, advantages of

on Malta

on poetry

praise for, promised

repartee, good

threats based on calling in

women serving

prologues to books

prose, by churchmen

greetings and salutations

long words

maqāmah

masters of

Muṣṭafā, Shaykh

quotations, use of

verbs, proper use of

verse compared to

prostitutes

Protestant missionaries. See Bag-man/Bag-men

Protestant missionaries. See also Bag-man/Bag-men

Protestantism, [Aḥmad] Fāris al-Shidyāq

Asʿad al-Shidyāq

Ottoman Empire

pursies

Qāmūs (al-Firūzābādī)

akhā, definition of

credit to

dependence on

Leg over Leg (al-Shidyāq)

monks

shawhāʾ, definition of

women, descriptive words for

Qannūbīn, monastery of (Mount Lebanon)

Qayʿar Qayʿār

qissīs (“priest”)

queens

quotations, use in books

Qurʾan

Rabelais, François

Rāfāʾīl Kaḥlā

rahbāniyyah (monasticism)

Raʾs al-Tīn

Rastegar, Kamran

reading, women and

recollection

refurbished goods

religious belief, consequences

language

women

resurrection, failed attempt at

Revelation

rhetoric

rhymed prose (sajʿ)

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

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