Language & Literature
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Ibn Dāniyāl: Three Shadow Plays [Paperback]
Paul Kahle (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9781909724624
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
Very few examples of medieval Arabic drama have survived, a fact which constitutes a serious loss to our knowledge of Arab literary history. However, we can form some idea of the kind of work of which we have been deprived by examining the thre... .... Learn More -
The Vagaries of the Qasidah [Paperback]
J. E. Montgomery (Author)
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ISBN: 9781909724525
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
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 concernin... .... Learn More -
Fārs-nāma of Ibnu l-Balkhī [Paperback]
G. Le Strange (Author); Reynold A. Nicholson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781909724662
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies
This description of the province of Fars, was written around the beginning of the 12th century A.D. The author cites his qualifications for it "I was well acquainted with the present condition of the people of Fars ... being well versed also in th... .... Learn More -
Books and Bibliophiles: Studies in honour of Paul Auchterlonie on the Bio-Bibliography of the Muslim World [Hardback]
Robert Gleave (Editor)
Regular Price: £40.00
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ISBN: 9781909724402
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
The diverse studies presented in this volume recount the production, understanding and organisation of Muslim literature, both in the Muslim world and Western Europe. First, there are bio-bibliographical studies of Middle Eastern... .... 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)
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ISBN: 9780906094372
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies
Al-Hujwīrī 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-Maḥjūb was probably written in Lahore, where he is buried,... .... Learn More -
The Rude, the Bad and the Bawdy [Hardback]
Adam Talib (Editor); Marlé Hammond (Editor); Arie Schippers (Editor)
Regular Price: £48.00
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ISBN: 9781909724334
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Throughout his distinguished career devoted to the study of Arabic language and literature, Geert Jan van Gelder sustained a particular interest in humour and irreverence: in mujūn, broadly understood as literary expressions of in... .... Learn More -
Abbasid Studies IV [Hardback]
Monique Bernards (Editor)
Regular Price: £45.00
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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 to create carried forth th... .... Learn More -
Mujùn: Libertinism in Medieval Muslim Society and Literature [Hardback]
Zoltan Szombathy (Author)
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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 students... .... Learn More -
A History of Ottoman Poetry [Paperback]
E. J. W. Gibb (Editor)
£120.00ISBN: 9781909724266
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Turkish Studies
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 volume h... .... Learn More -
The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Volume 6 (English translation) [Hardback]
Jalalu'ddin Rumi (Author); Reynold A. Nicholson (Author)
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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, dated 1278 and preserved ... .... Learn More
