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In Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq’s 1855 semiautobiographical picaresque  al-Sāq  ʿ alā al-sāq  ( Leg Over Leg ), the author’s double, the Fāriyāq, holds a series of jobs that parodically stand in for al-Shidyāq’s own employments. This article addresses the Fāriyāq’s career as an oneiromancer, reading it as an allegory of al-Shidyāq’s work as a Bible translator for European Protestant missionaries. By representing the  mu ʿ arrib  (translator into Arabic) as the  mu ʿ abbir  (dream interpreter), I argue, al-Shidyāq places the translator in a genealogy of professional interpreters, inheriting the tradition of early-modern Ottoman court interpreters who wielded the power of expertise against the social and economic power of their patrons. At a moment of historical shift from circuits of scribal patronage to a more horizontal print market, al-Shidyāq removes the oneiromantic tradition from its hierarchical patron economy and parodically reinscribes it in an emergent print culture, initiating an anonymous yet intimate community of laughter.

Dream interpretation and parodies of translation in Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq’s al-Sāq ʿ alā al-sāq