Language & Literature

ISBN: 9780906094983
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Soon after their successful revolution in 750 AD, the Abbāsids supplanted the Umayyad dynasty, built the new city of Baghdad, Iraq which became the capital of the Islamic Empire. The civilization that the Abbāsids helped... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780906094617
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
This book is about an aspect of mediaeval Arabic culture and literature known in Arabic as mujùn (roughly 'libertinism, licentiousness, frivolity, indecency, profligacy, shamelessness, impertinence', etc.), a concept that s... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781909724266
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.J.W. Gibb’s devotion to Ottoman Turkish literature. By the time of his early death in 1901 only the first vo... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780906094495
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
This publication provides a digital reproduction of a unique manuscript, recently rediscovered in Cambridge, which chronicles the reign of Shah Abbas, the greatest ruler of the Safavid dynasty of Persia. Abbas's forty-year reign revived the for... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780906094105
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies
Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi's great poem, the Mathnawi is one of
the best known and most influential works of Muslim mysticism.
Nicholson's critical edition is based on the oldest known
manuscripts, including the earliest, da... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789491431043
Published by : Barkhuis
Series: Ancient Narrative Supplementum
Volume: 15
Alexander the Great of Macedon was no stranger to controversy in his own time. Conqueror of the Greek states, of Egypt and of the Persian Empire as well as many of the principalities of the Indus Valley, he nevertheless became revered as well ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780718902223
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
In this treatise Ibn Rushd (Averroes) sets out to show that the Scriptural Law (shar') of Islam does not altogether prohibit the study of philosophy by Muslims, but, on the contrary, makes it a duty for a certain class of people, those with the... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780906094600
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
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... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780906094693
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
Takhyil is a term from Arabic poetics denoting the evocation of images. It has a broad spectrum of connotations throughout classical philosophical poetics and rhetoric, and it is closely linked to the Greek concept of phantasia. This volume is... .... Learn More