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Index
Cover
Half title
Letter from the General Editor
About this Paperback
Title
Copyright
Contents
Contents of the Book
Book Three
Chapter 1: Firing Up a Furnace
Chapter 2: Love and Marriage
Chapter 3: Contagion
Chapter 4: Analepsis
Chapter 5: Travel, and the Correction of a Common Misconception
Chapter 6: A Banquet and Various Kinds of Hot Sauce
Chapter 7: That Stinging Sensation You Feel When You Get Hot Sauce up Your Nose
Chapter 8: Dreams
Chapter 9: The Second Dream
Chapter 10: The Third Dream
Chapter 11: Physicking the Foul of Breath
Chapter 12: A Voyage and a Conversation
Chapter 13: A Maqāmah to Make One Stand
Chapter 14: Raveningly Ravenously Famished
Chapter 15: The Journey from the Monastery
Chapter 16: Ecstasy
Chapter 17: An Incitement to Nudity
Chapter 18: A Drain
Chapter 19: Assorted Wonders
Chapter 20: A Metropolitan Theft
Book Four
Chapter 1: Unleashing a Sea
Chapter 2: A Farewell
Chapter 3: Assorted Pleas for Mercy
Chapter 4: The Rules for Retelling
Chapter 5: The Superiority of Women, including a Description of London on the Authority of the Fāriyāq
Chapter 6: A Discussion
Chapter 7: Compare and Contrast
Chapter 8: A Voyage Festinate and Language Incomprehensibly and Inscrutably Intricate
Chapter 9: Form and Shapes
Chapter 10: A Passage and an Explanation
Chapter 11: A Translation and Some Advice
Chapter 12: Philosophical Reflections
Chapter 13: A Maqāmah to Make You Walk
Chapter 14: Elegy for a Son
Chapter 15: Mourning
Chapter 16: The Tyrannical Behavior of the English
Chapter 17: A Description of Paris
Chapter 18: A Complaint and Complaints
Chapter 19: A Metropolitan Theft and Miscellaneous Events
Chapter 20: A Selection of Poems and Verses Written by the Fāriyāq in Paris as Previously Alluded To
The Poem for Sultan ʿAbd al-Majīd Khān, may God preserve his might
The Presumptive Poem in Praise of Paris and the Prescriptive Poem in Dispraise of It
The Poem in Which He Eulogized the Honorable and Ennobled Emir ʿAbd Al-Qādir Ibn Muḥyī Al-Dīn
The Poem in Which He Eulogized the Honorable and Ennobled Ṣubḥī Bayk, Of Noble Lineage and Line, in Islāmbūl
The Eulogy He Wrote to the Virtuous and Wise Priest Ghubrāʾīl Jubārah
A Poem on Gambling
Room Poems
Poems of Separation
Conclusion
Letter
A List of the Synonymous and Lexically Associated Words in This Book
Appendix
List of Misspelled Arabic Words that I Discovered in the Transcriptions of Letters
Table Showing the Mistakes in the Probabtive Verses in the Maqāmāt
Notice
Translator’s Afterword
Chronology
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Further Reading
Index
About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
About the Translator
The Library of Arabic Literature
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