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A Translation
An English translation of the Muslim holy book portrays the spirit, rather than the exact context and rhythm, of the original Arabic text....
A. J. Arberry is one of Britain’s most distinguished and celebrated Orientalist scholars. This set contains five of Professor Arberry’s works: Sch...
Reprint of the 1961 classic study of the discourses of the founder of the order of Whirling Dervishes....
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....
A Primer for Students
Originally published in 1965, this is an introductory book for university students of Arabic literature. It begins with a substantial introduction in ...
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 Ch...
An Introduction with Selections
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...
First published in 1963, this work puts into clear and rhythmical English one hundred stories and apologues of the Masnavi of Rumi. Composed over a pe...
Translation of a selection of poems from one of the world's greatest lyric poets. First published 1947....
Fihi Ma Fihi
Jalal Ad-Din Rumi, the towering light of Sufi wisdom is rightly known as Moulavi Ma'anavi, the gnostic scholar - in the Muslim world. He has been cons...
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The Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273), a massive poem of some 25,000 rhyming couplets, by common consent ranks among the world's greatest maste...
The First Chapter in Arabic Literature
These seven poems, translated by A. J. Arberry in 1957, are the most famous survivors of a vast mass of poetry produced in the Arabian Desert in the s...
Portraits of Seven Scholars
First published in 1960, this work describes the lives and labours of six great scholars - Simon Ockley, Sir William Jones, E. W. Lane, E. H. Palmer, ...
First published in 1958, this work by one of Britain's most celebrated Orientalist scholars, tells the story of the rebirth of national literature in ...
Three Religions in Concord and Conflict. Islam
The Apologia of 'Ain Al-Qudat Al-Hamadhani
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...
First published in 1959, this reprint of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát is accompanied by an introduction an...
Three Religions in Concord and Conflict, Vol. 2: Islam
Originally published in 1952, this book was written as a continuation of the catalogues of Islamic manuscripts in Cambridge University Library created...
A Historical Sketch
A Study by A. [Arthur] J. [John] Arberry
A Study
Edward FitzGerald's First Edition
A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts. Text
The Land of Iran. Vol 1