Leg over Leg: Volume Two

Index

436 436 Index ʿAbd al-Jalīl, 405 ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī, 105, 419n81 Abīshalūm (Absalom), 407 Abū ʿAtāhiyah, 127, 421n102 Abū l-Baqā, 187–89, 425n164 Abū Nuwās, 127, 421n103 Abū Tammām, 127, 421n106 Aḥmad, Shaykh, 385 al-Akhḍarī, 385 Alexandria, air in, 85; Arabs in, 45–49; Bagman /Bag-men in, 59–61; Christians in, 51; dress in, 39–41; the Fāriyāq in, 9, 39, 59–61, 85; the Fāriyāq’s voyage/travel to, 85, 397; food eaten in, 51; Franks in, 57; headwear in, 39; hospitality in, 57; Turks in, 45–49, 57–59; waters in, 49–51; women in, 41–45 ʿAlī, 191 al-Āmidī, 125, 421n99 ʿAmr ibn Luḥayy, 23, 25, 412n20 al-Andalus, 119 al-Anfūshī, 414n37 anqāṭ, 117 aphrodisiacs, 393–95 Arabic language, Baḥth al-maṭālib (The Discussion of Issues), 153; distinguishing feature of, 371; the Fāriyāq as teacher of, 389, 397; Frankish pronunciation of, 63–69, 414nn49; priest’s pronunciation of, 63–69; Qurʾan revealed in, 49; students from the Mountain and, 154; translations into, 155–57 Arabic literature, tropes, 15. See also rhymed prose Arabic script, 239 Arabs, 45–49, 109, 119, 187 aromas/perfumes, words for, 315–25 asses, 87–89, 387–89 Atanāsiyūs al-Tutūnji, 69, 137, 417n66 the bag, Bag-man/Bag-men’s preoccupation with, 61; the Fāriyāq’s burden, 127, 155; point of, 81 bag, women’s, 195, 426n177 Bag-man/Bag-men (Protestant missionaries), in Alexandria, 59–61; the bag, preoccupation with, 61; in Cairo, 85, 103; damage done by, 21; English queens, 291; the Fāriyāq and, 59–61, 73–75, 81–83, 85, 123, 161, 397–99; indifference to people’s troubles, 31–33; language, 81; Market-man/Market-men, feuds with, 61, 77, 81; Market-woman/ Market-women, 77–79; payment by, 397; pork-eating, 73–75; prototype of, 59; saddlebags of, 33; serving girl/maid, 401–3; tools of the trade, 15, 29; wife beating by, 59; wife of a, 401 Baguettes, 399, 403 Baḥth al-maṭālib (The Discussion of Issues), 153, 383, 422n126 bayk (“bey”), 379 437 437 Index beardless boys, 363 “Biblemen.” See Bag-man/Bag-men Bilqīs, 129, 229, 237 Bion, 407, 434n293 birds, words for, 241–43 bloodletting, 145–49 bread, words for, 273–75 the British, 79 buildings, words for, 229–31 burning, kinds of, 55 al-Bustī, 127, 421n101 Cairo, 105–23; air in, 109; Bag-man/Bagmen in, 85, 103; catamites in, 109; Christians in, 119, 123–25; curiosities of, 105–13, 111; Domestic Services Office, 107–9; the Fāriyāq in, 85–87, 103, 389, 397; girls in, 107–9, 175; hashish use, 113; hospitality in, 117; joking in, 117; lutes, 119; markets in, 105–7; men in, 105–7; nighttime lanterns, 109–11; people of, 105, 117–19; plague in, 399; poets in, 105, 107, 123–29; police chief, 109; prices in, 121; scholars in, 107, 117; singing in, 119; trees unique to ʿAyn Shams suburb, 319 carrying devices, words for, 47–49 castles, words for, 229–31 chambers, words for, 223–25 children, 29–31, 181 China, 107 Christ, 155 Christian religion, books of, 69 Christianity, introduction into Frankish lands, 365 Christians, in Alexandria, 51; best honorific for, 379; in Cairo, 119, 123–25; divorce, 177–79; in Egypt, 139; imitation of Muslims, 73, 119; monasteries, 137, 287–89; monks, 55, 155; polite address to, 421n115. See also priests church books, 155 Church Missionary Society (CMS), 417n66 churches, 53, 77–79, 417n66 clothes/clothes making, words for, 337–63 confession, women during, 79 Copts, 59, 103, 119, 139, 379, 420n89 critics, 157, 163–73, 375, 424n141 Damascene territories, 51, 151 Damascus, 231 Days of Barbarism, 23, 187–89, 257, 315 the dead, praise of, 375–77 the Devil, 53–55, 83, 291 diversity of life, 9–15 divorce, 175–85; expression associated with, 425n155; the Fāriyāq’s poem about, 185; maqāmah about, 175–85; Muslims, 411n8; pre-Islamic divorce formula, 425n154; scholars, 183–85 doctors/physicians, advice concerning women, 173; an impotent doctor, 391–93; fatness of, 377; goodness of, 31; scholars compared to, 377; treatment of the Fāriyāq, 143–49 Domestic Services Office, 107–9 donkey(s), elegy for, 371–75, 379; emirs and, 299, 387–89; the Fāriyāq’s journey with...