Fate the Hunter

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature
• A rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt In the poems of Fate the Hunte r, many of them transla... Lees meer

In Deadly Embrace

Ibn Al-Muʿtazz

• Hardcover | Frans | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 94
• A collection of poems about nature and power To Ibn al-Muʿtazz and his Abbasid contemporaries, the hunt was more than a diversion--it was the theater ... Lees meer

The Oral and the Written in Early Islam

Gregor Schoeler, Uwe Vagelpohl, James E Montgomery

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
• Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned... Lees meer

The Oral and the Written in Early Islam

Gregor Schoeler, Uwe Vagelpohl, James E Montgomery

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
• Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned... Lees meer

Two Arabic Travel Books

Abū Zayd Al-Sīrāfī, Aḥmad Ibn Faḍlān

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 17
• Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experienc... Lees meer

Kalīlah and Dimnah

Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 91
• Timeless fables of loyalty and betrayal Like Aesop's Fables , Kalīlah and Dimnah is a collection designed not only for moral instruction, but also for... Lees meer

Kalīlah and Dimnah

Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 76
• Timeless fables of loyalty and betrayal Like Aesop's Fables , Kalīlah and Dimnah is a collection designed not only for moral instruction, but also for... Lees meer

Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books

James E Montgomery

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature
• Al-Jahiz was a bibliomaniac, theologian, and spokesman for the political and cultural elite, a writer who lived, counselled and wrote in Iraq during t... Lees meer

War Songs

ʿantarah Ibn Shaddād

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 41
• Poems of love and battle by Arabia's legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of ... Lees meer

Mission to the Volga

Aḥmad Ibn Faḍlān

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 28
• The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical ... Lees meer

The Philosopher Responds

Abū Ḥayyān Al-Tawḥīdī, Abū ʿalī Miskawayh

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 72
• Questions and answers from two great philosophers Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarr... Lees meer

War Songs

ʿantarah Ibn Shaddād

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 11
• Poems of love and battle by Arabia's legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of ... Lees meer

Diwan 'Antarah Ibn Shaddad

James E Montgomery

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 56
• 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... Lees meer