Abstract
This chapter presents a reading of the main literary work of the nineteenth century, by the Arabic‐language writer and polymath Ahmad Faris al‐Shidyaq (Aḥmad Fāris al‐Shidyāq),Leg Over Leg(al‐Sāq ʿalā al‐sāq fī mā huwwa al‐Fāriyāq). It considers this text in relation to recent debates on world literature (David Damrosch, Emily Apter, Pheng Cheah, Aamir R. Mufti), and it relates these debates, andLeg Over Leg, to the discipline and practice of philology, understood as a language event, and a form of colonial, linguistic violence, with ongoing effects in the literatures and literary institutions of the colonized. It considersLeg Over Legin relation to broader trends in the Arabic nineteenth century, and the new conceptualization of literature,adab, which emerged during this period, as it introduces several basic terms in two related fields of study: nineteenth‐century Arabic and World Literature Studies.
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