Gibb Memorial Trust
The Gibb Memorial Trust is a registered charity, set up to commemorate the death at the age of 45 of Elias John Wilkinson Gibb. Its objective is to promote the study and advancement of research into the history, literature, philosophy and religion of the Turks, Persians and Arabs.
The books currently in print consist of editions and translations of texts in Arabic, Persian, Turkish and other languages, as well as original works of scholarship. These are mostly in English with, in some cases, copies or original manuscripts.
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Tarikh-i Jahan-Gusha, Volume II: The History of the Khwarazmshah Dynasty (Mirza Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Wahhab Zazwini)
by 'Ala al-Din 'Ata Malik Juwayni
The Ta'rikh-i-Jahan-Gusha or History of the World-Conqueror is one of the most valuable sources for the life of Chingiz Khan and the establishment of the Mongol Empire. The Juwaynis, an established secretarial family of North-East Persia, made the ...
Hardback. Temporarily out of stock at publishers - will be delayed. Orders will be recorded. Price GB £20.00
The Life, Personality and Writings of al-Junayd
edited by Ali Hassan Abdel-Kader
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; and both ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £7.50, Our Price GB £4.95
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
Islamic Crosspollinations: Interactions in the Medieval Middle East
by James Montgomery, Anna Akasoy and Peter E Pormann
Islam as a cultural, intellectual, and religious venture appears in the popular imagination as a monolithic entity. Orientalists of the traditional ilk have tended to describe it in essentialist terms, whilst many fundamentalist Muslims themselves promote their construction of a pure and unadulterated Islamic past, to which they strive to return by purging foreign or unauthentic elements from their religion. Next to these attempts, another more ...
Hardback. Price GB £39.00
Diwan of Hassan ibn Thabit (Walid N. 'Arafat)
edited with noes and comments by Hassan Ibn Thabit)
Hassan ibn Thabit lived in Yathrib, the later Medina, and was of mature age when the Prophet Muhammad, leaving Mecca behind him, settled there. He was already an established poet and had found favour as a composer of eulogies on visits to the court of the ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £40.00, Our Price GB £14.95
The Mawaqif and Mukhatabat
by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Jabbar al-Niffari, edited and translated by Arthur John Arberry
The Mawaqif consists of seventy seven individual `stations' each in the form of a brief divine revelation addressed to the seeker whom God has held in that station. The Mukhatabat are similarly revelations from God to his servant. Arabic ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £27.00, Our Price GB £14.95
Domenico's Istanbul
edited by J Austin
Domenico was the name taken by a rabbi and doctor from Safed in Palestine on his conversion to Catholicism in 1593. For some ten years he served as Third Physician to Sultan Murad III. In 1611 he wrote or more accurately dictated his Relatione della gran Citta di Constantinopli. This is not just a topographical description of the city, but also an account of its inhabitants and the regulations governing their lives, of how the ...
Hardback. Price GB £26.00
Barthold, W.
Academician Barthold's famous work begins in the late 7th century with the Muslim invasions of what became Russian Central Asia and carries the history of the region through the period of Abbasid centralization, that of the rise of local Muslim dynasties and successive phases of Turkish dominance down to the arrival of Chingiz Khan in the early 13th. Barthold's mastery of the historical and geographical sources and his sound critical judgement ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00
The Babar-Nama
by Annette S. Beveridge
Babar was born in 1483 and died in 1530. His autobiography, a classic of Chaghatay Turkish literature, provides a vivid picture of the character and eventful career of a sophisticated and observant Central Asian warrior Prince, for before founding the ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £20.00, Our Price GB £14.95
Hudud al-'Alam 'The Regions of the World' - A Persian Geography 372 A.H. (982 AD)
Translated and explained by V. Minorsky, with translation of the Preface of V. V. Barthold's original Russian edition. Second English Edition, with additional material by the late Professor Minorsky, edited by C. E. Bosworth
The Hudud al-'Alam, written in AD 982 for a Prince of Guzganan (located in the North West of modern Afghanistan), is a geography covering the whole known world and one of the earliest works of Persian prose. It was designed to accompany a map and, though ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £30.00, Our Price GB £18.95
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