Library of Arabic Literature Series

20 primary works • 20 total works
New York University Press

The Library of Arabic Literature makes available Arabic editions and English translations of significant works of Arabic literature, with an emphasis on the seventh to nineteenth centuries. The Library of Arabic Literature thus includes texts from the pre-Islamic era to the cusp of the modern period, and encompasses a wide …
Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology
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4.72 · 18 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2012 · 5 editions
A major translation achievement, this anthology pr…

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    A Treasury of Virtues: Sayings, Sermons, and Teachings of Ali, with the One Hundred Proverbs, attributed to al-Jahiz
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    4.48     · 21 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2013 · 15 editions
    A Treasury of Virtues is a collection by the Fatim…

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    The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muḥammad
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    4.22     · 32 Ratings · 13 Reviews · published 2014 · 11 editions
    The Expeditions is one of the oldest biographies o…

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    الرسالة
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    4.47     · 238 Ratings · 44 Reviews · published 1997 · 25 editions
    أبو عبد الله محمد بن إدريس الشافعيّ (150 هـ/766 م …

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    Leg over Leg: Volumes Three and Four
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    4.00     · 14 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2014 · 4 editions
    Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to midd…

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    Leg over Leg: Volumes One and Two
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    3.75     · 40 Ratings · 13 Reviews · published 1855 · 4 editions
    The life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'—…

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    The Principles of Sufism
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    4.15     · 79 Ratings · 14 Reviews · published 2014 · 16 editions
    'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah (d. 923/1517) of Damascus w…

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    The Epistle of Forgiveness, or A Pardon to Enter the Garden
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    3.92     · 38 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 1033 · 5 editions
    Known as one of the most complex and unusual texts…

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    The Life of Ibn Ḥanbal
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    4.32     · 19 Ratings · 5 Reviews · 3 editions
    Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241 H/855 AD), renowned for h…

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    Ibn Fadlān and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North
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    3.88     · 2615 Ratings · 395 Reviews · published 921 · 59 editions
    In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fa…

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    Two Arabic Travel Books: Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga
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    3.82     · 49 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2014 · 6 editions
    Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional e…

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    Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad
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    3.73     · 45 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2015 · 6 editions
    Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-ce…

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    A Hundred and One Nights
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    3.97     · 39 Ratings · 12 Reviews · published 2013 · 9 editions
    A luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantm…

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    Disagreements of the Jurists: A Manual of Islamic Legal Theory
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    4.00     · 3 Ratings · published 2015 · 3 editions
    A masterful overview of Islamic law and its divers…

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    What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us: Or, A Period of Time
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    4.00     · 9 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 3 editions
    Trenchant and witty critiques of life in Cairo und…

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    War Songs
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    4.18     · 62 Ratings · 18 Reviews · 6 editions
    Poems of love and battle by Arabia's legendary war…

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    The Life and Times of Abū Tammām
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    4.33     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2015 · 6 editions
    Abu Tammam (d. 231 or 232 H/845 or 846 AD) is one …

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    The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt
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    3.78     · 9 Ratings · 3 Reviews · 7 editions
    Patronage, power, and competition in the Sultan’s …

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    Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded: Volume Two
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 3 editions
    Unique in pre-20th-century Arabic literature for t…

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    Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded: Volume One
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    4.00     · 7 Ratings · 6 Reviews · 4 editions
    Unique in pre-20th-century Arabic literature for t…

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