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Light in the Heavens
Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, wielding an authority second only to the Qur'an. The words of Muhammad (d. 11/632), God's messenger and prophet of Islam, have a special place in …
Two Arabic Travel Books
Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and …
A Hundred and One Nights
A luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder Known to us only through North African manuscripts, and translated into English for the first time, A Hundred and …
The Excellence of the Arabs
The Excellence of the Arabs is a spirited defense of Arab identity—its merits, values, and origins—at a time of political unrest and fragmentation, written by one of the most …
Leg over Leg
Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators' Association The life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'—the alter ego of the …
The Expeditions
One of the earliest surviving biographies of Prophet Mu?ammad, translated into readable, modern English for the first time The Expeditions is one of the oldest biographies of the …
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded, with Risible Rhymes
Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini’s Brains Confounded pits the “coarse” rural masses against the “refined” urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the …
Consorts of the Caliphs
Accounts of remarkable women at the world's most powerful court Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were …
The Discourses
Wide-ranging essays on Moroccan history, Sufism, and religious life Al-Hasan al-Yusi was arguably the most influential and well-known Moroccan intellectual figure of his …
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 …