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

The Sword of Ambition

ʿuthmān Ibn Ibrāhīm Al-Nābulusī

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 52
• Patronage, power, and competition in the Sultan's court The Sword of Ambition opens a new window onto interreligious rivalry among elites in medieval ... Lees meer

The Book of Monasteries

Al-Shābushtī

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 90
• A literary tour of Christian monasteries of the medieval Middle East The Book of Monasteries takes readers on an engaging tour of the monastic centers... Lees meer

The Sword of Ambition

ʿuthmān Ibn Ibrāhīm Al-Nābulusī

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 38
• The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuri... Lees meer

The Book of Charlatans

Jamāl Al-Dīn ʿabd Al-Raḥīm Al-Jawbarī

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 82
• Uncovering the professional secrets of con artists and swindlers in the medieval Middle East The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to tricke... Lees meer

A Treasury of Virtues

Al-Qāḍī Al-Quḍāʿī

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 26
• Insights into a life of integrity by a master of Arabic eloquence A Treasury of Virtues is a collection of sayings, sermons, and teachings attributed ... Lees meer

The Principles of Sufism

ʿĀʾishah Al-Bāʿūniyyah

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 4
• 'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah of Damascus was one of the great women scholars in Islamic history. Born into a prominent family of pious scholars and Sufi dev... Lees meer

The Discourses

Al-Ḥasan Al-Yūsī

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 16
• Wide-ranging essays on Moroccan history, Sufism, and religious life Al-Hasan al-Yusi was arguably the most influential and well-known Moroccan intelle... Lees meer

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 Darfur

Muḥammad Al-Tūnisī

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 12
• A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian ... Lees meer

Disagreements of the Jurists

Al-Qāḍī Al-Nuʿmān

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 22
• 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 dynast... Lees meer

The Epistle of Forgiveness

Abū L-ʿalāʾ Al-Maʿarrī

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 29
• Known as "one of the most complex and unusual texts in Arabic literature" ( Banipal Magazine ), The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the... Lees meer

The Discourses

Al-Ḥasan Al-Yūsī

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 77
• Wide-ranging essays on Moroccan history, Sufism, and religious life Al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī was arguably the most influential and well-known Moroccan intelle... Lees meer

The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali

Abū Rayḥān Al-Bīrūnī

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 68
• A brilliant cross-cultural Arabic interpretation of a key text of yoga philosophy The Yoga Sutras of Pata ñ jali is the foundational text of yoga phil... Lees meer

A Physician on the Nile

ʿabd Al-Laṭīf Al-Baghdādī

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature
• Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century Egypt A Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seve... Lees meer

What ʿĪsā Ibn Hishām Told Us

Muhammad Al Muwaylihi

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 37
• Trenchant and witty critiques of life in Cairo under British rule What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us is a masterpiece of early twentieth-century Arabic pros... Lees meer

Arabian Satire

Ḥmēdān Al-Shwēʿir

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 49
• This lively volume collects poems by Hmedan al-Shwe'ir, who lived in Najd in the Arabian Peninsula shortly before the hegemony of the Wahhabi movement... Lees meer

Light in the Heavens

Al-Qāḍī Al-Quḍāʿī

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 40
• Humanitarian lessons and practical insights from the prophet of Islam The words of Muhammad, messenger of God and prophet of Islam, have a special pla... 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

A Hundred and One Nights

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 10
• Fantastic tales of magic and wonder Translated into English for the very first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradi... Lees meer

The Expeditions

Maʿmar Ibn Rāshid

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 21
• One of the earliest surviving biographies of Prophet Muḥammad, translated into readable, modern English for the first time The Expeditions is one of t... Lees meer

The Epistle on Legal Theory

Muhammad Ibn Idris Al-Shafi'i

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 42
• The Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its au... Lees meer

The Divine Names

ʿafīf Al-Dīn Al-Tilimsānī

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature
• A Sufi scholar's philosophical interpretation of the names of God The Divine Names is a philosophically sophisticated commentary on the names of God. ... Lees meer

The Life of Ibn Ḥanbal

Ibn Al-Jawzī

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Arabic Literature | nr. 3
• 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), n... Lees meer