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THE BOOK OF CHARLATANS

THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATAÑJALI

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

ABŪ RAYḤĀN AL-BĪRŪNĪ Translated by MARIO KOZAH Foreword by DAVID GORDON WHITE

A brilliant cross-cultural Arabic interpretation of a key text of yoga philosophy

Uncovering the professional secrets of con artists and swindlers in the medieval Middle East

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348 PAGES • PAPER 9781479813247 • $16.00

136 PAGES • PAPER 9781479813216 • $15.00

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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 • PAPER 9781479810567 • $15.00

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THE DISCOURSES

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

AL-ḤASAN AL-YŪSĪ Translated by JUSTIN STEARNS Foreword by AYESHA RAMACHANDRAN

Wide-ranging essays on Moroccan history, Sufism, and religious life

Poems on Bedouin Life and Love

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

KALĪLAH AND DIMNAH

Fables of Virtue and Vice

IBN AL-MUQAFFAʿ Edited by MICHAEL FISHBEIN Translated by MICHAEL FISHBEIN and JAMES E. MONTGOMERY

Timeless fables of loyalty and betrayal 470 PAGES • CLOTH 9781479806539 • $30.00

372 PAGES • PAPER 9781479810581 • $15.00

THE BOOK OF TRAVELS

ḤANNĀ DIYĀB Edited by JOHANNES STEPHAN Translated by ELIAS MUHANNA Foreword by YASMINE SEALE Afterword by PAULO LEMOS HORTA

The adventures of the man who created Aladdin TWO-VOLUME SET: 720 PAGES CLOTH • 9781479810949 • $50.00

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A PHYSICIAN ON THE NILE A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years ʿABD AL-LAṬĪF AL-BAGHDĀDĪ Edited and translated by TIM MACKINTOSH-SMITH

Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century Egypt 300 PAGES • CLOTH 9781479806249 • $30.00

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LIGHT IN THE HEAVENS

IN DARFUR

An Account of the Sultanate and Its People

Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad

MUḤAMMAD AL-TŪNISĪ Translated by HUMPHREY DAVIES Foreword by KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH

AL-QĀḌĪ AL-QUḌĀʿĪ

Translated by TAHERA QUTBUDDIN

Foreword by BISHOP PAUL HINDER

A merchant’s remarkable travel account of an African kingdom

Humanitarian lessons and practical insights from the prophet of Islam

430 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479804443 • $15.00

192 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479864485 • $15.00

THE PHILOSOPHER RESPONDS

THE EXCELLENCE OF THE ARABS

ABŪ ḤAYYĀN AL-TAWḤĪDĪ and ABŪ ʿALĪ MISKAWAYH Translated by SOPHIA VASALOU and JAMES E. MONTGOMERY Foreword by JONATHAN RÉE

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

An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century

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

Questions and answers from two great philosophers

224 PAGES • PAPER 9781479899265 • $16.00

446 PAGES • PAPER 9781479806355 • $15.00

STORIES OF PIETY AND PRAYER

BRAINS CONFOUNDED

BY THE ODE OF ABŪ SHĀDŪF EXPOUNDED

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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Satires of rural society in Ottoman Egypt 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-SA’I Translated by SHAWKAT M. TOORAWA and THE EDITORS OF THE LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATURE Introduction by JULIA BRAY Foreword by MARINA WARNER

Translated by BRUCE FUDGE Foreword by ROBERT IRWIN

272 PAGES • PAPER 9781479873234 • $15.00

Women and the Court of Baghdad

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

WHAT ʿĪSĀ IBN HISHĀM TOLD US Or, A Period of Time

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

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

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 SWORD OF AMBITION

Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt

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

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

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

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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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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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

108 PAGES • PAPER 9781479899890 • $15.00

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

124 PAGES • PAPER 9781479830596 • $15.00

THE EPISTLE OF FORGIVENESS Volumes One and Two

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

A tongue-in-cheek tour of the afterlife

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

584 PAGES • PAPER 9781479834945 • $16.00

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

A LAND WITH A PEOPLE

COMING OF AGE IN IRAN

Edited by ESTHER FARMER, ROSALIND POLLACK PETCHESKY and SARAH SILLS

MANATA HASHEMI

Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

A collection of personal stories, history, poetry, and art 184 PAGES • PAPER 9781583679296 • $19.00 Published by Monthly Review Press

Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity An inside look at young Iranians navigating poverty and stigma in a time of crisis 256 PAGES • PAPER 9781479881949 • $30.00 In Critical Perspectives on Youth

2018 OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE, GIVEN BY CHOICE MAGAZINE

BEING MUSLIM

CHANGING QATAR

SYLVIA CHAN-MALIK

GEOFF HARKNESS

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

Culture, Citizenship, and Rapid Modernization A cultural study of modern Qatar and how it navigates change and tradition 340 PAGES • PAPER 9781479854820 • $32.00

288 PAGES • PAPER 9781479823420 • $29.00

THE 9/11 GENERATION

Youth, Rights, and Solidarity in the War on Terror SUNAINA MARR MAIRA

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

MUSLIM COOL

Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States SU’AD ABDUL KHABEER

“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 9781479894505 • $30.00

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

ISLAMOPHOBIA AND RACISM IN AMERICA

ISLAM IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY

Confronting and combating Islamophobia in America

ZAREENA GREWAL

ERIK LOVE

272 PAGES • PAPER 9781479838073 • $29.00

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

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