Language & Literature
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Mesir us-suara (or Tezkere Asik Celebi) [Hardback]
G. M. Meredith-Owens (Author); Asik Celebi (Author)
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ISBN: 9780718902001
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Turkish Studies
This sixteenth century biographical dictionary of Ottoman poets with comments on their style and examples of their work was one of Gibb's principle sources for Ottoman poetry in its most flourishing period. Turkish text. .... Learn More -
The Censure of Speculative Theology of Ibn Qudama (Tahrim al-Nazar fi Kutub al al-Kalam) [Hardback]
G. Makdisi (Author)
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ISBN: 9780906094167
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
Muwaffaq al-Din Ibn Qudama (1147-1223) was an ascetic, jurisconsult and traditionalist theologian of the Hanbali school mainly resident in Damascus. His Tahrim al-Nazar is an attack on the rationalist views of the earlier jurist of Baghdad, Ibn 'A... .... Learn More -
The Makarim al-Akhlaq [Hardback]
T. Gandje (Author)
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ISBN: 9780906094112
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies
Facsimile edition of a treatise on Alishir Navai Ghiyath ad-Din b. Humam ad-Din Muhammad, known as Khvandmir . The Makarim al-Akhlaq is a panegyric biography of Khvandmir's patron 'Ali Shir Nava'i, famous as the greatest of Catagay poets. Pers... .... Learn More -
Kitab al-nasikh wa-l-mansukh of Abu 'Ubaid al-Qasim b. Sallam (MS Istanbul, Topkapi, Ahmet III A 143) [Hardback]
John Burton (Author)
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ISBN: 9780906094174
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
The term nasikh wa mansukh, usually translated as 'abrogation', relates to theories arising from the early exegesis of the Qur'an, in an attempt to resolve apparent contradictions in the Qur'anic text between different statements, especially th... .... Learn More -
The Kashf al-Mahjub (The Revelation of the Veiled) of Ali b. 'Uthman al-Jullãbi Hujwiri. An early Persian Treatise on Sufism [Paperback]
Reynold A. Nicholson (Translator)
$39.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780906094372
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies
Al-Hujwiri came from Ghazna, now in Afghanistan, then the capital of the mighty Ghaznavid Empire. He was a Sufi mystic who travelled widely in the Middle East and Transoxiana. The Kashf al-Muhjub was probably written in Lahore, where he is buri... .... Learn More -
The Life, Personality and Writings of al-Junayd [Paperback]
Ali Hassan Abdel-Kader (Author)
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ISBN: 9780718902230
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
Al-Junayd (d. 910) was one of the most significant figures of the formative period of Islamic mystical thought and practice in the third to ninth centuries. This volume contains an account of his life, personality and writings; his doctrine; an... .... Learn More -
Kitab al-Tashbihat of Ibn Abi 'Aun: The Book of Similes [Hardback]
M. 'Abdul Muid Khan (Editor)
$62.00ISBN: 9780718902193
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
Kitab al-Tashbihat of Ibn Abi 'Aun: The Book of Similes Aedited by M Abdul Mu'id Khan This 9th Century treatise demonstrates an attempt to systematise existing Arab poetry by grouping the works of 476 poets by the objects of comparison they use. A... .... Learn More -
Chahar Maqalah (The Four Discourses) of Nidhámí al-Arúdi al-Samarqandí [Paperback]
Edward G. Browne (Author)
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ISBN: 9780906094068
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies
Written in the middle of the 12th century for a member of the Ghurid family of Bamiyan (in modern Afghanistan) the Four Discourses are concerned with four professions necessary at the Prince's court, those of scribe, poet, astrologer and physic... .... Learn More -
The Diwans of 'Abid ibn al-Abras of Asad and 'Amir ibn at-Tufail of 'Amir ibn Sa'sa'ah [Hardback]
Charles Lyall (Author)
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ISBN: 9780906094136
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
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