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The Doctors' Dinner Party
A witty satire of the medical profession The Doctors’ Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu. A young doctor from out of town …
The Epistle on Legal Theory
The Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muhammad ibn Idris …
The Book of Travels
The adventures of the man who created Aladdin The Book of Travels is ?anna Diyab’s remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the …
The Book of Travels
The adventures of the man who created Aladdin The Book of Travels is ?anna Diyab’s remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the …
The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature
An 1830s African-American slave narrative written in Arabic. Dafydd Morgan, the only American immigrant novel published in Welsh. The Native American epic, Walum Olum, in the …
Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn ?anbal
A?mad ibn ?anbal (d. 241/855), renowned for his profound knowledge of hadith—the reports of the Prophet’s sayings and deeds—is a major figure in the history of Islam. Ibn ?anbal’s …
The Life of Ibn ?anbal
The Life of Ibn ?anbal is a translation of the biography of Ibn Hanbal by the Baghdad preacher, scholar, and storyteller Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 597/1200), newly abridged for a paperback …
The Divine Names
A Sufi scholar’s philosophical interpretation of the names of God The Divine Names is a philosophically sophisticated commentary on the names of God. Penned by the …
Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature
Until very recently, the idea of ancient Jewish sciences would have been considered unacceptable. Since the 1990s, Early Modern and Medieval Science in Jewish sources has been …
Prospects for the Study of American Literature
What can there possibly be left to say about . . .? This common litany, resonant both in and outside of academia, reflects a growing sense that the number of subjects and authors …