Library of Arabic Literature Bilingual Arabic-English editions
A Hundred and One Nights
Edited & Translated by Bruce Fudge Foreword by Robert Irwin Known to us only through North African manuscripts, and translated into English for the first �me, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradi�on of popular Arabic storytelling. This careful edi�on and vibrant transla�on promises to transport readers, new and veteran alike, into its fantas�cal realms of magic and wonder. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Library of Arabic Literature September 2016 416pp HB: 9780814745199 £29.99 eBook: 9780814771716 £29.99
A Treasury of Virtues
Sayings, Sermons, and Teachings of 'Ali, with the One Hundred Proverbs attributed to al-Jahiz al-Qāḍī al-Quḍāʿī Edited & Translated by Tahera Qutbuddin A collec�on of sayings, sermons, and teachings a�ributed to 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 40/661), the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, the first Shia Imam and the fourth Sunni Caliph. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Library of Arabic Literature February 2013 306pp PB: 9781479826551 £20.99 HB: 9780814729144 £36.00 eBook: 9780814771853 £20.99
Arabian Satire
Poetry from 18th-Century Najd Ḥmēdān al-Shwēʿir Edited & Translated by Marcel Kurpershoek Reveals the poet Ḥmēdān al-Shwēʿir as a plucky, headstrong, yet intensely socially commi�ed figure—representa�ve of the tradi�onal Najdī ethos—who infuses his verse with proverbs, maxims, and words of wisdom expressed plainly and conversa�onally. This is the first full transla�on of this remarkable poet NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Library of Arabic Literature December 2017 208pp HB: 9781479878062 £29.99 eBook: 9781479818730 £29.99
A Physician on the Nile
A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī Edited & Translated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith A Physician on the Nile begins as a descrip�on of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a harrowing account of famine and pes�lence. Wri�en by the polymath and physician ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī, it contains great diversity in a small compass. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Library of Arabic Literature April 2021 350pp HB: 9781479806249 £25.99 eBook: 9781479806256 £25.99
Arabian Romantic
Poems on Bedouin Life and Love ʿAbdallāh ibn Sbayyil Edited & Translated by Marcel Kurpershoek Ibn Sbayyil (ca. 1853–1933) was a key figure in the Naba� poe�c tradi�on. His poetry broke with the ar�fice of the preceding genera�on by combining inherited idiom and original touches reflec�ng his environment. Translated into English for the first �me this collec�on will delight readers with direct, fluent, and expressive poetry. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Library of Arabic Literature October 2018 256pp HB: 9781479837663 £29.99 eBook: 9781479845415 £29.99
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī Translated by Humphrey Davies Foreword by Youssef Rakha
Unique in pre-20th-century Arabic literature for taking the countryside as its central theme, Brains Confounded is a work of outstanding importance for the study of premodern colloquial Egyp�an Arabic. Volume One describes the three rural “types”. Volume Two is followed by Risible Rhymes, mocking the pretensions of uneducated poets from Egypt’s countryside. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Library of Arabic Literature July 2016 465pp (Vol. 1) | 360pp (Vol.2) Vol. 1: HB 9781479882342 £36.00 | eBook: 9781479888252 £36.00 Vol. 2: HB 9781479838905 £36.00 | eBook: 9781479892389 £36.00