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Mission to the Volga
Häftad, 2017
206 kr
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The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in ArabicMission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central …
Two Arabic Travel Books
Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga
Av Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī, Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
529 kr
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Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes on the lands and peoples of the Indian Ocean, from the Somali headlands to …
Impostures
Av al-Ḥarīrī
Häftad, 2021
234 kr
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One of the Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Books of the YearWinner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category Shortlist, 2021 National Translation AwardFinalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature Category Fifty rogue's tales translated fifty waysAn itinerant con man. A gullible eyewitness …
Diwan 'Antarah Ibn Shaddad
A Literary-Historical Study
Inbunden, 2018
1100 kr
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The pre-Islamic warrior-poet 'Antarah ibn Shaddad, a composer of one of the Mu'allaqat, attracted the attention of the philologists who were active in Iraq at the nascence of the scholarly study of Arabic. These philologists collected and studied the diwan of 'Antarah as part of their recovery and …
Treasury of Virtues
Sayings, Sermons, and Teachings of 'Ali, with the One Hundred Proverbs Attributed to Al-Jahiz
Av al-Qāḍī al-Quḍāʿī, Tahera Qutbuddin
Inbunden, 2013
526 kr
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Insights into a life of integrity by a master of Arabic eloquenceA Treasury of Virtues is a collection of sayings, sermons, and teachings attributed to 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 40/661), the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, the first Shia Imam and the fourth Sunni Caliph. An acknowledged …
Leg Over Leg
Volume One
Av Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq, Humphrey Davies
Inbunden, 2013
721 kr
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Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators' Association The life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'—the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-ShidyaqLeg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of 'the Fariyaq,' alter …
Classical Arabic Literature
A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology
Häftad, 2012
441 kr
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A major translation achievement, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose, from pre-Islamic times until the eighteenth century, with short introductions to guide non-specialist students and informative endnotes and bibliography for advanced scholars. …
Virtues of the Imam Ahmad Ibn Ḥanbal
Volume Two
Av Ibn al-Jawzī, Michael Cooperson
Inbunden, 2015
721 kr
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Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (d. 241/855), renowned for his profound knowledge of hadith—the reports of the Prophet's sayings and deeds—is a major figure in the history of Islam. Ibn Ḥanbal's piety and austerity made him a folk hero, especially after his principled resistance to the attempts of two Abbasid …
Hundred and One Nights
Av Bruce Fudge
Inbunden, 2016
591 kr
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Fantastic tales of magic and wonderEdited and translated into English for the first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabic storytelling. Like its more famous sibling, the Thousand and One Nights, this collection opens with the frame story of …
Principles of Sufism
Av ʿĀʾishah al-Bāʿūniyyah, Th Emil Homerin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
526 kr
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'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah (d. 923/1517) of Damascus was one of the great women scholars in Islamic history. A mystic and prolific poet and writer, 'A'ishah composed more works in Arabic than any other woman before the twentieth century. Yet despite her extraordinary literary and religious …
Life and Times of Abū Tammām
Av Abū Bakr al-Ṣūlī, Beatrice Gruendler
Inbunden, 2015
721 kr
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A robust defense of a poetic geniusAbū Tammām (d. 231 or 232/845 or 846) is one of the most celebrated poets in the Arabic language. Born in Syria to Greek Christian parents, he converted to Islam and quickly made his name as one of the premier Arabic poets in the caliphal court of Baghdad, …
Disagreements of the Jurists
A Manual of Islamic Legal Theory
Av al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān, Devin Stewart
Inbunden, 2015
515 kr
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A masterful overview of Islamic law and its diversity Al-Qadi al-Nu'man was the chief legal theorist and ideologue of the North African Fatimid dynasty in the tenth century. This translation makes available in English for the first time his major work on Islamic legal theory, which presents a legal …
Epistle of Forgiveness
Volume One: a Vision of Heaven and Hell
Av Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī, Geert Jan Van Gelder m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
721 kr
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One of the most unusual books in classical Arabic literature, The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose writer Abu l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri (d. 449/1057), to a letter written by an obscure grammarian, Ibn al-Qarih. With biting irony, The Epistle of Forgiveness …
Discourses
Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature—Volume One
Av al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī, Justin Stearns
Inbunden, 2020
559 kr
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Wide-ranging essays on Moroccan history, Sufism, and religious lifeAl-Hasan al-Yusi was arguably the most influential and well-known Moroccan intellectual figure of his generation. In 1084/1685, at the age of roughly fifty-four, and after a long and distinguished career, this Amazigh scholar from …
Expeditions
An Early Biography of Muḥammad
Av Maʿmar ibn Rāshid, Sean W. Anthony m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
665 kr
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One of the earliest surviving biographies of Prophet Muḥammad, translated into readable, modern English for the first timeThe Expeditions is one of the oldest biographies of the Prophet Muḥammad to survive into the modern era. Its primary author, Maʿmar ibn Rāshid (96-153/714-770), was a prominent …
Leg Over Leg
Volume Two
Av Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq, Humphrey Davies
Inbunden, 2013
721 kr
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Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators' Association The life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'—the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-ShidyaqLeg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of 'the Fariyaq,' alter …
Epistle on Legal Theory
A Translation of Al-Shafi'i's Risalah
Av Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i, Joseph E. Lowry m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
721 kr
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A modern translation of a foundational document of Islamic jurisprudenceThe Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d. 204/820), was the eponym of the …
Classical Arabic Literature
A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology
Inbunden, 2012
1401 kr
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A major translation achievement, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose, from pre-Islamic times until the eighteenth century, with short introductions to guide non-specialist students and informative endnotes and bibliography for advanced scholars. …
Virtues of the Imam Ahmad Ibn Ḥanbal
Volume One
Av Ibn al-Jawzī, Michael Cooperson
Inbunden, 2013
721 kr
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Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (d. 241/855), renowned for his profound knowledge of hadith—the reports of the Prophet's sayings and deeds—is a major figure in the history of Islam. Ibn Ḥanbal's piety and austerity made him a folk hero, especially after his principled resistance to the attempts of two Abbasid …
Epistle of Forgiveness
Volume Two: Hypocrites, Heretics, and Other Sinners
Av Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī, Geert Jan Van Gelder m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
721 kr
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One of the most unusual books in classical Arabic literature, The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose writer, Abu l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri (d. 449/1057), to a letter by an obscure grammarian, Ibn al-Qarih. With biting irony, The Epistle of Forgiveness mocks …
Leg Over Leg
Volumes One and Two
Häftad, 2015
267 kr
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Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators' Association The life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'—the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-ShidyaqLeg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of "the Fariyaq," alter …
Scents and Flavors
A Syrian Cookbook
Häftad, 2020
234 kr
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Collecting 635 meticulous recipes, Scents and Flavors invites us to savor an inventive cuisine that elevates simple ingredients by combining the sundry aromas of herbs, spices, fruits, and flower essences. This popular thirteenth-century Syrian cookbook is an ode to what its anonymous author calls …
Impostures
Av al-Ḥarīrī
Inbunden, 2020
399 kr
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One of the Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Books of the YearWinner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category Shortlist, 2021 National Translation AwardFinalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature Category Fifty rogue's tales translated fifty waysAn itinerant con man. A gullible eyewitness …
Maqāmāt Abī Zayd Al-Sarūjī
Av al-Ḥarīrī, Michael Cooperson
Inbunden, 2020
562 kr
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Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Sarūjī is a scholarly, Arabic-only edition of the celebrated work by al-Ḥarīrī, which is also available in English translation from the Library of Arabic Literature as Impostures. Al-Ḥarīrī's text consists of fifty stories about the adventures of the itinerant con man and master …
Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
Av Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī, Mario Kozah
Inbunden, 2020
480 kr
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A brilliant cross-cultural Arabic interpretation of a key text of yoga philosophyThe Yoga Sutras of Patañjali is the foundational text of yoga philosophy to this day and is still used by millions of yoga practitioners and students worldwide. Written in a question-and-answer format, The Yoga Sutras …
Arabian Romantic
Poems on Bedouin Life and Love
Häftad, 2020
202 kr
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Scenes from Arabian life at the turn of the twentieth centuryArabian Romantic captures what it was like to live in central Arabia before the imposition of austere norms by the Wahhabi authorities in the early twentieth century: tales of robbery and hot pursuit; perilous desert crossings; scenes of …
In Darfur
An Account of the Sultanate and Its People
Häftad, 2020
234 kr
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A merchant's remarkable travel account of an African kingdomMuḥammad al-Tūnisī (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading with Egypt and what is now Sudan. Al-Tūnisī was raised in Cairo and a graduate of al-Azhar. In 1803, at the age of fourteen, al-Tūnisī set off for the …
Life of Ibn Ḥanbal
Av Ibn al-Jawzī
Häftad, 2016
231 kr
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The Life of Ibn Ḥanbal is a translation of the biography of Ibn Hanbal by the Baghdad preacher, scholar, and storyteller Ibn al-Jawzī (d. 597/1200), newly abridged for a paperback readership by translator Michael Cooperson. Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (d. 241/855), renowned for his profound knowledge of …
Physician on the Nile
A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years
Av ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī, Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Inbunden, 2021
448 kr
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Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century EgyptA Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a harrowing account of famine and pestilence. Written by the polymath and physician ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī, …
Book of Travels
Volume Two
Av Ḥannā Diyāb, Johannes Stephan
Inbunden, 2021
415 kr
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The adventures of the man who created Aladdin The Book of Travels is Ḥannā Diyāb's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of Versailles and back again, which forever linked him to one of the most popular pieces of world literature, the …
