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Index
Cover
Half title
Letter from the General Editor
About this Paperback
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Notes to the Frontmatter
Contents of the Book
The Dedication of This Elegantly Eloquent Book
Author’s Notice
An Introduction by the Publisher of This Book
Proem
Book One
Chapter 1: Raising a Storm
Chapter 2: A Bruising Fall and a Protecting Shawl
Chapter 3: Various Amusing Anecdotes
Chapter 4: Troubles and a Tambour
Chapter 5: A Priest and a Pursie, Dragging Pockets and Dry Grazing
Chapter 6: Food and Feeding Frenzies
Chapter 7: A Donkey that Brayed, a Journey Made, a Hope Delayed
Chapter 8: Bodega, Brethren, and Board
Chapter 9: Unseemly Conversations and Crooked Contestations
Chapter 10: Angering Women Who Dart Sideways Looks, and Claws like Hooks
Chapter 11: That Which Is Long and Broad
Chapter 12: A Dish and an Itch
Chapter 13: A Maqāmah, or, a Maqāmah on “Chapter 13”
Chapter 14: A Sacrament
Chapter 15: The Priest’s Tale
Chapter 16: The Priest’s Tale Continued
Chapter 17: Snow
Chapter 18: Bad Luck
Chapter 19: Emotion and Motion
Chapter 20: The Difference between Market-men and Bag-men
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
Notes
Glossary
Index
About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
About the Translator
The Library of Arabic Literature
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