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THE BOOK OF CHARLATANS

JAMĀL AL-DĪN ʿABD AL-RAḤĪM AL-JAWBARĪ Edited by MANUELA DENGLER Translated by HUMPHREY DAVIES Foreword by S. A. CHAKRABORTY

Uncovering the professional secrets of conmen and swindlers in the medieval Middle East

THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATAÑJALI ABŪ RAYḤĀN AL-BĪRŪNĪ Edited and translated by MARIO KOZAH

A brilliant cross-cultural Arabic interpretation of a key text of yoga philosophy 158 PAGES • CLOTH 9781479804139 • $30.00

528 PAGES • CLOTH • 9781479897636 • $35.00

IMPOSTURES

ARABIAN ROMANTIC

Fifty rogue’s tales translated fifty ways

ʿABDALLĀH IBN SBAYYIL Translated by MARCEL KURPERSHOEK Foreword by ANNMARIE DRURY

AL-ḤARĪRĪ Translated by MICHAEL COOPERSON Foreword by ABDELFATTAH KILITO

542 PAGES • CLOTH 9781479800841 • $29.95

IN DARFUR

An Account of the Sultanate and Its People

MUḤAMMAD AL-TŪNISĪ Translated by HUMPHREY DAVIES Foreword by KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH Introduction by R.S. O’FAHEY

A merchant’s remarkable travel account of an African kingdom

Poems on Bedouin Life and Love

Scenes from Arabian life at the turn of the twentieth century 326 PAGES • PAPER 9781479804405 • $15.00

ARABIAN SATIRE

Poetry from 18th-Century Najd ḤMĒDĀN AL-SHWĒʿIR Translated by MARCEL KURPERSHOEK Foreword by JANE TYLUS

Satirical verse on society and its hypocrisies 206 PAGES • PAPER 9781479885169 • $15.00

430 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479804443 • $15.00

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SCENTS AND FLAVORS A Syrian Cookbook

Translated by CHARLES PERRY Foreword by CLAUDIA RODEN

Delectable recipes from the medieval Middle East 242 PAGES • PAPER 9781479800810 • $15.00

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WAR SONGS

ʿANTARAH IBN SHADDĀD Translated by JAMES E. MONTGOMERY with RICHARD SIEBURTH Foreword by PETER COLE

Poems of love and battle by Arabia’s legendary warrior 320 PAGES • PAPER 9781479858798 • $14.00

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THE DISCOURSES

LIGHT IN THE HEAVENS

Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature— Volume One

Sayings of the Prophet Muḥammad

AL-ḤASAN AL-YŪSĪ Edited and translated by JUSTIN STEARNS

AL-QĀḌĪ AL-QUḌĀʿĪ Translated by TAHERA QUTBUDDIN Foreword by BISHOP PAUL HINDER

Wide-ranging essays on Moroccan history, Sufism, and religious life 530 PAGES • CLOTH • 9780814764572 • $35.00

Humanitarian lessons and practical insights from the prophet of Islam 192 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479864485 • $15.00

THE PHILOSOPHER RESPONDS

THE EXCELLENCE OF THE ARABS

ABŪ ḤAYYĀN AL-TAWḤĪDĪ and ABŪ ʿALĪ MISKAWAYH Edited by BILAL ORFALI and MAURICE A. POMERANTZ Translated by SOPHIA VASALOU and JAMES E. MONTGOMERY

A spirited defense of Arab identity from a time of political unrest

An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volumes One and Two

IBN QUTAYBAH Translated by SARAH BOWEN SAVANT and PETER WEBB Foreword by JACK WEATHERFORD

224 PAGES • PAPER 9781479899265 • $16.00

Questions and answers from two great philosophers VOL. 1 • 336 PAGES • CLOTH • 9781479871483 • $40.00 VOL. 2 • 372 PAGES • CLOTH • 9781479834600 • $40.00

BRAINS CONFOUNDED

BY THE ODE OF ABŪ SHĀDŪF EXPOUNDED

STORIES OF PIETY AND PRAYER Deliverance Follows Adversity

by AL-MUḤASSIN IBN ʿALĪ ALTANŪKHĪ Edited and translated by JULIA BRAY

Volume One

YŪSUF AL-SHIRBĪNĪ Translated by HUMPHREY DAVIES Foreword by YOUSSEF RAKHA

Satires of rural society in Ottoman Egypt

Uplifting tales from one of the most influential Arabic books of the Middle Ages

320 PAGES • PAPER 9781479840212 • $16.00

320 PAGES • CLOTH 9781479855964 • $35.00

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BY THE ODE OF ABŪ SHĀDŪF EXPOUNDED, WITH RISIBLE RHYMES

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Volume Two

YŪSUF AL-SHIRBĪNĪ and MUḤAMMAD IBN MAḤFŪẒ ALSANHŪRĪ Translated by HUMPHREY DAVIES

Satires of rural society in Ottoman Egypt

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380 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479829668 • $16.00

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A HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS

CONSORTS OF THE CALIPHS

A luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder

by IBN AL-SĀʿĪ Translated by SHAWKAT M. TOORAWA and THE EDITORS OF THE LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATURE Introduction by JULIA BRAY Foreword by MARINA WARNER

Women and the Court of Baghdad

Translated by BRUCE FUDGE Foreword by ROBERT IRWIN

272 PAGES • PAPER 9781479873234 • $15.00

Accounts of remarkable women at the world’s most powerful court 176 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479866793 • $14.00

WHAT ʿĪSĀ IBN HISHĀM TOLD US

THE SWORD OF AMBITION

Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt

Or, A Period of Time

MUḤAMMAD AL-MUWAYLIḤĪ Translated by ROGER ALLEN Foreword by MARIA GOLIA

ʿUTHMĀN IBN IBRĀHĪM ALNĀBULUSĪ Translated by LUKE YARBROUGH Foreword by SHERMAN ʿABD ALḤAKĪM JACKSON

Trenchant and witty critiques of life in Cairo under British rule 524 PAGES • PAPER 9781479840915 • $17.00

Patronage, power, and competition in the Sultan’s court 224 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479824786 • $16.00

A TREASURY OF VIRTUES

Sayings, Sermons, and Teachings of ʿAlī, with the One Hundred Proverbs attributed to al-Jāḥiẓ

AL-QĀḌĪ AL-QUḌĀʿĪ Translated by TAHERA QUTBUDDIN Foreword by ROWAN WILLIAMS

A collection of sayings, sermons, and teachings attributed to ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (d. 40/661)

THE EXPEDITIONS

An Early Biography of Muḥammad MAʿMAR IBN RĀSHID

Translated by SEAN W. ANTHONY Foreword by M.A.S. ABDEL HALEEM One of the oldest biographies of the Prophet Muḥammad to survive into the modern era 320 PAGES • PAPER 9781479816828 • $15.00

196 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479896530 • $15.00

LEG OVER LEG

LEG OVER LEG

AḤMAD FĀRIS AL-SHIDYĀQ Translated by HUMPHREY DAVIES

AḤMAD FĀRIS AL-SHIDYĀQ Translated by HUMPHREY DAVIES

Volumes One and Two

A satirical masterpiece by a pioneer of modern Arabic literature 528 PAGES • PAPER 9781479800728 • $18.00

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Volumes Three and Four

A satirical masterpiece by a pioneer of modern Arabic literature 600 PAGES • PAPER 9781479813292 • $18.00

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MISSION TO THE VOLGA

ACCOUNTS OF CHINA AND INDIA

Translated by JAMES E. MONTGOMERY Foreword by TIM SEVERIN The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic

Depictions of the natural life, peoples, and kingdoms around the Indian Ocean

AḤMAD IBN FAḌLĀN

ABŪ ZAYD AL-SĪRĀFĪ Translated by TIM MACKINTOSHSMITH Foreword by ZVI BEN-DOR BENITE

108 PAGES • PAPER 9781479899890 • $15.00

124 PAGES • PAPER 9781479830596 • $15.00

THE EPISTLE OF FORGIVENESS

THE PRINCIPLES OF SUFISM

ABŪ L-ʿALĀʾ AL-MAʿARRĪ Translated by GREGOR SCHOELER and GEERT JAN VAN GELDER Foreword by MATTHEW REYNOLDS

A mystical guide book to help others on their spiritual path

Volumes One and Two

A tongue-in-cheek tour of the afterlife 584 PAGES • PAPER 9781479834945 • $16.00

ʿĀʾISHAH AL-BĀʿŪNIYYAH Translated by TH. EMIL HOMERIN Foreword by ROS BALLASTER

210 PAGES • PAPER 9781479829248 • $15.00

LAL SCHOLARLY EDITIONS

TAJRĪD SAYF ALHIMMAH LI-STIKHRĀJ MĀ FĪ DHIMMAT ALDHIMMAH A Scholarly Edition of ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nābulusī’s Text LUKE YARBROUGH

A scholarly, Arabic-only edition of The Sword of Ambition 124 PAGES • CLOTH 9781479854714 • $75.00

DIWAN ʿANTARAH IBN SHADDĀD A Literary-Historical Study JAMES E. MONTGOMERY

Uncovers the literary history of the diwan of pre-Islamic warrior-poet ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād 332 PAGES • CLOTH 9781479861880 • $75.00

MAQĀMĀT ABĪ ZAYD AL-SARŪJĪ AL-ḤARĪRĪ Edited by MICHAEL COOPERSON Foreword by ABDELFATTAH KILITO

A scholarly, Arabic-only edition of the celebrated work by al-Ḥarīrī 352 PAGES • CLOTH 9781479800896 • $40.00

LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATURE The Library of Arabic Literature makes available Arabic editions and English translations of significant works of Arabic literature, with an emphasis on the seventh to nineteenth centuries.

Books in the series are published in parallel-text and English-only editions.

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RELIGION

FEAR IN OUR HEARTS What Islamophobia Tells Us about America CALEB IYER ELFENBEIN

Argues that anti-Muslim activity reveals how fear is corroding core American values 248 PAGES • CLOTH 9781479804580 • $28.00 In North American Religions

MUSLIM AMERICAN CITY Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit ALISA PERKINS

Explores how Muslim Americans test the boundaries of American pluralism 264 PAGES • PAPER 9781479892013 • $30.00

POLITICS

WOMEN RISING

In and Beyond the Arab Spring Edited by RITA STEPHAN and MOUNIRA M. CHARRAD

Groundbreaking essays by female activists and scholars documenting women’s resistance before, during, and after the Arab Spring

PROMOTING DEMOCRACY

The Force of Political Settlements in Uncertain Times MANAL A. JAMAL

How Western donor assistance can both help and undermine democracy in different parts of the world

432 PAGES • PAPER 9781479801046 • $35.00

320 PAGES • PAPER 9781479878451 • $35.00

ARAB NEW YORK

THE NEW ARAB URBAN

Politics and Community in the Everyday Lives of Arab Americans EMILY REGAN WILLS

From Bay Ridge to Astoria, explore political action in Arab New York 224 PAGES • PAPER 9781479854875 • $27.00

Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress Edited by HARVEY MOLOTCH and DAVIDE PONZINI

Cities of the Arabian Peninsula reveal contradictions of contemporary urbanization 368 PAGES • PAPER 9781479897254 • $30.00

LITERATURE

IN THE PRESENCE OF POWER Court and Performance in the PreModern Middle East

Edited by MAURICE A. POMERANTZ and EVELYN BIRGE VITZ

Insights into power, spectacle, and performance in the courts of Middle Eastern rulers 304 PAGES • PAPER 9781479883004 • $40.00

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A MAN OF THE THEATER

Survival as an Artist in Iran NASSER RAHMANINEJAD

Life in Iran as an artist under the Shah and during the Iranian Revolution 320 PAGES • PAPER 9781613321102 • $21.95 Published by New Village Press

SOCIAL SCIENCE

COMING OF AGE IN IRAN

CHANGING QATAR

MANATA HASHEMI

GEOFF HARKNESS

256 PAGES • PAPER 9781479881949 • $30.00 In Critical Perspectives on Youth

340 PAGES • PAPER 9781479854820 • $32.00

Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity

Culture, Citizenship, and Rapid Modernization

An inside look at young Iranians navigating poverty and stigma in a time of crisis

A cultural study of modern Qatar and how it navigates change and tradition

2018 OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE, GIVEN BY CHOICE MAGAZINE

BEING MUSLIM

MUSLIM COOL

SYLVIA CHAN-MALIK

SU’AD ABDUL KHABEER

A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam An exploration of twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. Muslim womanhood that centers the lived experience of women of color

Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States “An admirable approach to the circulation of Blackness, which few have taken up in the context of Muslims in the United States.”

—Sociology of Religion

288 PAGES • PAPER 9781479823420 • $29.00

288 PAGES • PAPER 9781479894505 • $30.00

THE 9/11 GENERATION

ISLAM IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY

SUNAINA MARR MAIRA

ZAREENA GREWAL

Youth, Rights, and Solidarity in the War on Terror Explores how young people from communities targeted in the War on Terror engage with the “political,” even while they are under constant scrutiny and surveillance

American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority Investigates the meaning of American citizenship and the place of Islam in a global age 409 PAGES • PAPER 9781479800568 • $27.00 In Nation of Nations

320 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479880515 • $30.00 CHOICE TOP BOOK OF 2017

ISLAMOPHOBIA AND RACISM IN AMERICA ERIK LOVE

Confronting and combating Islamophobia in America 272 PAGES • PAPER 9781479838073 • $29.00

MIDDLE EAST STUDIES FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM Infrastructures of Knowledge

Edited by SETENEY SHAMI and CYNTHIA MILLER-IDRISS

Explores the big-picture issues affecting the field of Middle East Studies

512 PAGES • CLOTH • 9781479827787 • $55.00 In Social Science Research Council

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