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Chapter 7: A Description of Cairo

  • Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
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Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. FOREWORD ix
  4. NOTES TO THE FRONTMATTER xxxvii
  5. CONTENTS OF THE BOOK 1
  6. THE DEDICATION OF THIS ELEGANTLY ELOQUENT BOOK 5
  7. AUTHOR'S NOTICE 6
  8. AN INTRODUCTION BY THE PUBLISHER OF THIS BOOK 11
  9. PROEM 14
  10. BOOK ONE
  11. Chapter 1: Raising a Storm 23
  12. Chapter 2: A Bruising Fall and a Protecting Shawl 39
  13. Chapter 3: Various Amusing Anecdotes 43
  14. Chapter 4: Troubles and a Tambour 50
  15. Chapter 5: A Priest and a Pursie, Dragging Pockets and Dry Grazing 55
  16. Chapter 6: Food and Feeding Frenzies 64
  17. Chapter 7: A Donkey that Brayed, a Journey Made, a Hope Delayed 69
  18. Chapter 8: Bodega, Brethren, and Board 73
  19. Chapter 9: Unseemly Conversations and Crooked Contestations 78
  20. Chapter 10: Angering Women Who Dart Sideways Looks, and Claws like Hooks 86
  21. Chapter 11: That Which Is Long and Broad 94
  22. Chapter 12: A Dish and an Itch 101
  23. Chapter 13: A Maqāmah, or, a Maqāmah on “Chapter 13” 110
  24. Chapter 14: A Sacrament 117
  25. Chapter 15: The Priest’s Tale 123
  26. Chapter 16: The Priest’s Tale Continued 129
  27. Chapter 17: Snow 142
  28. Chapter 18: Bad Luck 148
  29. Chapter 19: Emotion and Motion 164
  30. Chapter 20: The Difference between Market-men and Bag-men 181
  31. BOOK TWO
  32. Chapter 1: Rolling a Boulder 189
  33. Chapter 2: A Salutation and a Conversation 207
  34. Chapter 3: The Extraction of the Fāriyāq from Alexandria, by Sail 221
  35. Chapter 4: A Throne to Gain Which Man Must Make Moan 232
  36. Chapter 5: A Description of Cairo 244
  37. Chapter 6: Nothing 249
  38. Chapter 7: A Description of Cairo 250
  39. Chapter 8: Notice that the Description of Cairo is Ended 253
  40. Chapter 9: That to Which I Have Alluded 260
  41. Chapter 10: A Doctor 265
  42. Chapter 11: The Fulfillment of What He Promised Us 269
  43. Chapter 12: Poems for Princes 275
  44. Chapter 13: A Maqāmah to Make You Sit 283
  45. Chapter 14: An Explanation of the Obscure Words in the Preceding Maqāmah and Their Meanings 290
  46. Chapter 15: . . . . . . . . . . Right There ☞ 343
  47. Chapter 16: Right Here! 344
  48. Chapter 17: Elegy for a Donkey 380
  49. Chapter 18: Various Forms of Sickness 387
  50. Chapter 19: The Circle of the Universe and the Center of This Book 392
  51. Chapter 20: Miracles and Supernatural Acts 398
  52. NOTES 403
  53. GLOSSARY 471
  54. INDEX 475
  55. ABOUT THE NYU ABU DHABI INSTITUTE 492
  56. ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR 493
  57. THE LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATURE 494
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479832880.003.0036

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. FOREWORD ix
  4. NOTES TO THE FRONTMATTER xxxvii
  5. CONTENTS OF THE BOOK 1
  6. THE DEDICATION OF THIS ELEGANTLY ELOQUENT BOOK 5
  7. AUTHOR'S NOTICE 6
  8. AN INTRODUCTION BY THE PUBLISHER OF THIS BOOK 11
  9. PROEM 14
  10. BOOK ONE
  11. Chapter 1: Raising a Storm 23
  12. Chapter 2: A Bruising Fall and a Protecting Shawl 39
  13. Chapter 3: Various Amusing Anecdotes 43
  14. Chapter 4: Troubles and a Tambour 50
  15. Chapter 5: A Priest and a Pursie, Dragging Pockets and Dry Grazing 55
  16. Chapter 6: Food and Feeding Frenzies 64
  17. Chapter 7: A Donkey that Brayed, a Journey Made, a Hope Delayed 69
  18. Chapter 8: Bodega, Brethren, and Board 73
  19. Chapter 9: Unseemly Conversations and Crooked Contestations 78
  20. Chapter 10: Angering Women Who Dart Sideways Looks, and Claws like Hooks 86
  21. Chapter 11: That Which Is Long and Broad 94
  22. Chapter 12: A Dish and an Itch 101
  23. Chapter 13: A Maqāmah, or, a Maqāmah on “Chapter 13” 110
  24. Chapter 14: A Sacrament 117
  25. Chapter 15: The Priest’s Tale 123
  26. Chapter 16: The Priest’s Tale Continued 129
  27. Chapter 17: Snow 142
  28. Chapter 18: Bad Luck 148
  29. Chapter 19: Emotion and Motion 164
  30. Chapter 20: The Difference between Market-men and Bag-men 181
  31. BOOK TWO
  32. Chapter 1: Rolling a Boulder 189
  33. Chapter 2: A Salutation and a Conversation 207
  34. Chapter 3: The Extraction of the Fāriyāq from Alexandria, by Sail 221
  35. Chapter 4: A Throne to Gain Which Man Must Make Moan 232
  36. Chapter 5: A Description of Cairo 244
  37. Chapter 6: Nothing 249
  38. Chapter 7: A Description of Cairo 250
  39. Chapter 8: Notice that the Description of Cairo is Ended 253
  40. Chapter 9: That to Which I Have Alluded 260
  41. Chapter 10: A Doctor 265
  42. Chapter 11: The Fulfillment of What He Promised Us 269
  43. Chapter 12: Poems for Princes 275
  44. Chapter 13: A Maqāmah to Make You Sit 283
  45. Chapter 14: An Explanation of the Obscure Words in the Preceding Maqāmah and Their Meanings 290
  46. Chapter 15: . . . . . . . . . . Right There ☞ 343
  47. Chapter 16: Right Here! 344
  48. Chapter 17: Elegy for a Donkey 380
  49. Chapter 18: Various Forms of Sickness 387
  50. Chapter 19: The Circle of the Universe and the Center of This Book 392
  51. Chapter 20: Miracles and Supernatural Acts 398
  52. NOTES 403
  53. GLOSSARY 471
  54. INDEX 475
  55. ABOUT THE NYU ABU DHABI INSTITUTE 492
  56. ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR 493
  57. THE LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATURE 494
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