Library of Arabic Literature

Bruce Fudge (translation) Paperback, 272 pages English-only edition 9781479873234   Translated into English for the very first time, A Hundred and ...

Abd al-Latif al-BaghdadiTim Mackintosh-Smith (translation)Paperback, 288 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479820078 A Description of Egypt and Journal ...

al-Qadi al-Quda'i Tahera Qutbuddin (translation) Paperback, 196 pages English-only edition 9781479896530   A Treasury of Virtues is a collection of...

Abu Zayd al-SirafiTim Mackintosh-Smith (translation)Paperback, 124 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479830596   The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed...

ʿAbdallāh ibn SbayyilMarcel Kurpershoek (translation)Paperback, 328 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479804405   Scenes from Arabian life at the turn o...

Hmedan al-Shewe'irMarcel Kurpershoek (translation)Paperback, 206 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479885169   Satirical verse on society and its hypocr...

Yusuf al-ShirbiniHumphrey Davies (translation)Paperback, 320 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479840212   Satires of rural society in Ottoman Egypt   W...

Yusuf al-Shirbini and Muhammad ibn Mahfuz al-SanhuriHumphrey Davies (translation)Paperback, 380 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479829668   Satires of...

Geert Jan van GelderPaperback, 496 pages9780814738269   A major translation achievement, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Ara...

Ibn al-Sa'iPaperback, 176 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479866793   Accounts of remarkable women at the world's most powerful court   Consorts of th...

Joseph E. Lowry (tr.) Paperback, 368 pages English-only edition 9781479855445   The Risalah is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal th...

Mamar Ibn Rashid Sean W. Anthony (translation) Paperback, 320 pages English-only edition 9781479816828   Kitab al-Maghazi, Parallel English-Arabic ...

Al-HaririMichael Cooperson (translation)Paperback, 542 pages9781479810567   Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award   Fifty rogue’s tales translated f...

Muhammad al-TunisiHumphrey Davies (translation)Paperback, 430 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479804443   A merchant’s remarkable travel account of an...

Ibn al-MuqaffaʿMichael Fishbein, James E. Montgomery (translation)Hardback, 300 pagesBilingual Arabic-English edition9781479806539   Timeless fable...

Ibn al-MuqaffaMichael Fishbein and James E. Montgomery (translation)Paperback, 293 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479825776   Timeless fables of loya...

al-Qadi al-Qudai Tahera Qutbuddin (translation)Paperback, 192 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479864485   The words of Prophet Muhammadﷺ, Messenger of...

al-Mayidi ibn Zahir Marcel Kurpershoek (translation)Hardback, 400 pagesBilingual Arabic-English edition9781479806577   Poems and tales of a literar...

Ahmad Ibn Fadlan James E. Montgomery (translation)Paperback, 108 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479899890   The earliest surviving instance of sustai...

Aishah al-Bauniyyah Hardback 9780814745281   Arabic-English 

Muhammad ibn Mahfuz al-SanhuriHumphrey Davies (translation)Hardback, 128 pagesBilingual Arabic-English edition9781479877928   Written in mid-sevent...

Charles Perry (translator) Paperback, 242 pages English-only edition 9781479800810   This popular thirteenth-century Syrian cookbook is an ode to w...

al-Muhassin ibn 'Ali al-Tanukhi Julia Bray (translation) Hardback, 320 pages Bilingual Arabic-English edition 9781479855964   Al-Faraj baʿd al-shid...

Jamal al-Din Abd al-Rahim al-Jawbari Humphrey Davies (translation) Paperback, 320 pages English-only edition 9781479813247   Uncovering the profess...