Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta A.J. Arberry
yhteensä 20 hakutulosta
The Romance of the Rubaiyat
'The finest and most famous translation ever made, next to the English Bible': few would dispute the justness of this description of Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayydam. …
Sufi Martyr
Originally published in 1969.This volume was composed by an eminent Sufi mystic whilst in prison in Baghdad, awaiting execution, in a vain attempt to overthrow his sentence; he was …
Revelation and Reason in Islam
The "Scholastic Problem" was the focus of much debate in Islam for some centuries before it became the chief crux of learned discussion in medieval Christianity. When originally …
Oriental Essays
In this book Professor Arberry describes the lives and labours of six great scholars - Simon Ockley, Sir William Jones, E. W. Lane, E. H. Palmer, E.G. Browne and R. A Nicholson - …
Fifty Poems of Hafiz
Translation of a selection of poems from one of the world's greatest lyric poets. First published 1947.
Aspects of Islamic Civilization
Islamic literature is rich, varied, and abundant, as befits the literature of a civilization which once controlled an empire as great as that of the Romans. In Aspects of Islamic …
Holy Koran
Despite being revered as the Holy Book by Muslims throughout the world, the Koran is the least known and least understood in the West of all the great religious books. In this …
Sufism
Originally published in 1950.Thinkers such as Ghazali and Ibn `Arabi, poets such as Ibn al-Farid, Rumi, Hafiz and Jami were greatly inspired by the lives and sayings of the early …
A Sufi Martyr
The text translated here was composed by an eminent Sufi mystic whilst in prison in Baghdad, awaiting execution, in a vain attempt to overthrow his sentence. He was cruelly put to …