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 الرابع
| الفصل الاول | فى اطلاق بحر * |
| الفصل الثانى | فى وداع * |
| الفصل الثالث | فى استرحامات شتى * |
| الفصل الرابع | فى شروط الرواية * |
| الفصل الخامس | فى فضل النسآ وفيه وصف لندن عن الفارياق * |
| الفصل السادس | فى محاورة * |
| الفصل السابع | فى الطباق والتنظير * |
| الفصل الثامن | فى سفر معجّل وهينوم عقمى رهبل * |
| الفصل التاسع | فى الهيئة والاشكال * |
| الفصل العاشر | فى سفر وتفسير * |
| الفصل الحادى عشر | فى ترجمة ونصيحة * |
| الفصل الثانى عشر | فى خواطر فلسفية * |
| الفصل الثالث عشر | فى مقامة ممشية * |
| الفصل الرابع عشر | فى رثآء ولد * |
| الفصل الخامس عشر | فى الحِداد * |
| الفصل السادس عشر | فى جور الانكليز * |
| الفصل السابع عشر | فى وصف باريس * |
| الفصل الثامن عشر | فى شكاة وشكوى * |
| الفصل التاسع عشر | فى سرقة مطرانية ووقائع مختلفة * |
| الفصل العشرون | فى نبذة مما نظمه الفارياق من القصائد والابيات فى باريس على ما سبقت الاشارة اليه * |
Contents of the Book
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 Shape
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
A List of the