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as an historical document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