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Islamic Literature
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Islamic Reflections, Arabic Musings: Studies in Honour of Professor Alan Jones
edited by Robert G Hoyland and Philip F Kennedy
Fifteen essays on literature, linguistics, history and epigraphy. Contents include: Maysir-gambling in early Arabic poetry (N Jamil); the Qu'ran as a source of law: the case of zakat (alms-tax) (Y Dutton); On the difficulty of knowing mediaeval Arab authors: the case of Abu I-Faraj and pseudo-Isfahani (H Kilpatrick); Mahfuz's urban battlegrounds (R Ostle); Inscriptions of companions of the prophet in the Merv Oasis ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00
The World of Murtada al-Zabidi (1732-91). Life, Networks and Writings
by Stefan Reichmuth
Murtada al-Zabidi was a Humanist scholar and a Muslim, whose twelfth-century writings are here examined in the context of their geographical and historical setting. The period when Zabidi was writing saw a shift in the balance of power from the Muslim empires to the Western world, reflected in the stories he told of his travels from India on to Cairo, across vast distances and coming across an extraordinary range of people. The five chapters in ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00
Abdelhafidh al-Mansur's On Hunting
translated by Sir Terence Clark and Muawiya Derhalli
The original manuscript of On Hunting was presented to the Hafsid Sultan of North Africa al-Mustansir bi-Allah, known as al-Mansur, in 1247. He was a passionate hunter with Saluqis, falcons and other predators on his estate at Bizerte. The complete book apparently dealt with all aspects of hunting and falconry but only Parts VII and VIII of Volume IV of the original seven volumes remains, which Abdulhafedh Mansour of Tunis University ...
Paperback. Price GB £18.00
The Qur'an
Translated into English by Alan Jones
The Qur'an is the sacred book of Islam. For Muslims it is the word of God revealed in Arabic by the archangel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad, and thence to mankind. Originally it was delivered orally: traditional sources indicate that Muhammad always recited his message. He was a preacher; he delivered good news; and he warned; thus, the Qur'an is a collection of sermons, exhortations, guidance, warnings and pieces of encouragement. This new ...
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The History of the Mazru'i Dynasty of Mombasa
by Shaykh Al-Amin bin 'Ali Al Mazru'i, translated and annotated by J McL Ritchie
This history of the Mazru'i family, who ruled Mombasa for more than 100 years up to 1837, is published here in an English translation, together with the original Arabic text.It was written by the late Shaykh Al-Amin bin 'Ali Al Mazru'i, formerly Chief Qadhi of Kenya Colony, and embodies the oral Mazru'i family tradition, which stretches back beyond the evidence of English documents to the late seventeenth century.268p (Fontes Historiae ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £27.50, Our Price GB £9.95
Traces of Song: Selections from Ancient Arabic Poetry This book brings together two of the most important and fascinating art forms in Arabic culture: poetry and calligraphic painting. Walid Khazendar, one of the leading poets in the Arab world, has selected and translated into English twenty-five texts and twenty-three quotations from an
Khazendar, Walid
This book brings together two of the most important and fascinating art forms in Arabic culture: poetry and calligraphic painting. Walid Khazendar, one of the leading poets in the Arab world, has selected and translated into English twenty-five texts and twenty-three quotations from ancient Arabic poetry. To date, Khazendar has published three collections. His poetry has been translated in Agenda (1997), Modern Poetry in Translation ...
Paperback. Price GB £28.00
Al-Farabi's Philosophical Lexicon
by Ilai Alon and Shukri Abed
Al-Farabi (d. 950 AD), was perhaps the most original and influential of all Muslim philosophers of the Middle Ages. His intellectual activity spanned over areas as different as music, medicine, political theory, linguistics, logic, metaphysics, religion ...
Hardback. Price GB £90.00
The Travels of Ibn Jubayr
edited by William Wright, revised by M. J. De Goeje
Ibn Jubayr, originally from an Arab family in Spain, is best known for the account he wrote of his journey to the East. The main part of the book covers eight months spent in Mecca and gives one of the fullest early descriptions of the city and its ritual ...
Hardback. Price GB £25.00
The Vagaries of the Qasidah by J. E. Montgomery
Montgomery, J E
A study of the tradition and practice of early Arabic poetry, this book provides an investigation of the multiple versions of early poems that exist in various Abbasid collections. It offers a corrective to the more exaggerated claims concerning this ...
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Uddat al-Jalis of Ibn Bishri: An Anthology of Andalusian Arabic Muwashshat
edited by Alan Jones
This is an anthology of outstanding literary importance, probably the most valuable work of Arabic poetry to surface this century. It contains the largest and best collection of Andalusian Muwashshat, 354 in all, of which over 280 are not known ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £30.00, Our Price GB £12.95
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