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  • War Songs

    by 'Antarah ibn Shaddad, James E Montgomery, Richard Sieburth, Peter Cole ...
    Series Book 41 - Library of Arabic Literature
    Poems of love and battle by Arabia's legendary warriorFrom the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary warrior and poet. The black outcast son of an Arab father and an Ethiopian slave mother, 'Antarah ibn Shaddad struggled to win the recognition of his father and tribe. He defied social norms and, despite ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fate the Hunter

    Early Arabic Hunting Poems

    by James E. Montgomery ...
    Series series Library of Arabic Literature
    A rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the huntIn the poems of Fate the Hunter, many of them translated into English for the first time, trained cheetahs chase oryx, and goshawks glare from falconers’ arms, while archers stalk their prey across the desert plains and mountain ravines of the Arabian peninsula. With this collection, James E. Montgomery, ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Kalīlah and Dimnah

    Fables of Virtue and Vice

    by Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ ...
    Translated by Michael Fishbein, James E. Montgomery ...
    Series Book 91 - Library of Arabic Literature
    Timeless fables of loyalty and betrayalLike Aesop’s Fables, Kalīlah and Dimnah is a collection designed not only for moral instruction, but also for the entertainment of readers. The stories, which originated in the Sanskrit Panchatantra and Mahabharata, were adapted, augmented, and translated into Arabic by the scholar and state official Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ in the second/eighth century. The stories ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • In Deadly Embrace

    Arabic Hunting Poems

    Translated by James E. Montgomery ...
    by al-Muʿtazz Ibn ...
    Series series Library of Arabic Literature
    A collection of poems about nature and powerTo Ibn al-Muʿtazz and his Abbasid contemporaries, the hunt was more than a diversion—it was the theater for their poetic and political endeavors, captured here in fifty-nine Arabic hunting poems, or ṭardiyyāt. The poems of In Deadly Embrace describe hunting expeditions with animals trained to hunt, including saluki hounds and birds of prey. Many were ... Read more

    $9.09 USD

  • The Oral and the Written in Early Islam

    by Gregor Schoeler, Uwe Vagelpohl, James E. Montgomery ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
    Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and received cultural articulation among the Muslim societies of the first two centuries of the Hijra. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Mission to the Volga

    Translated by James E. Montgomery ...
    by Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ...
    Series Book 28 - Library of Arabic Literature
    The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in ArabicMission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia.In this colorful documentary from the tenth century, the enigmatic Ibn Fadlan relates his ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • In Deadly Embrace

    Arabic Hunting Poems

    by James E. Montgomery, al-Muʿtazz Ibn ...
    Series series Library of Arabic Literature
    A collection of poems about nature and powerTo Ibn al-Muʿtazz and his Abbasid contemporaries, the hunt was more than a diversion—it was the theater for their poetic and political endeavors, captured here in fifty-nine Arabic hunting poems, or ṭardiyyāt. The poems of In Deadly Embrace describe hunting expeditions with animals trained to hunt, including saluki hounds and birds of prey. Many were ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Kalīlah and Dimnah

    Fables of Virtue and Vice

    by Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ ...
    Translated by Michael Fishbein, James E. Montgomery ...
    Series Book 76 - Library of Arabic Literature
    Timeless fables of loyalty and betrayalLike Aesop’s Fables, Kalīlah and Dimnah is a collection designed not only for moral instruction, but also for the entertainment of readers. The stories, which originated in the Sanskrit Panchatantra and Mahabharata, were adapted, augmented, and translated into Arabic by the scholar and state official Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ in the second/eighth century. The stories ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Philosopher Responds

    An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century

    by Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh ...
    Translated by Sophia Vasalou, James E. Montgomery ...
    Series series Library of Arabic Literature
    Questions and answers from two great philosophersWhy is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, The Philosopher Responds is the record of a set of questions put by the litterateur Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Diwan 'Antarah ibn Shaddad

    A Literary-Historical Study

    by James E. Montgomery ...
    Series Book 56 - Library of Arabic Literature
    The pre-Islamic warrior-poet 'Antarah ibn Shaddad, a composer of one of the Mu'allaqat, attracted the attention of the philologists who were active in Iraq at the nascence of the scholarly study of Arabic. These philologists collected and studied the diwan of 'Antarah as part of their recovery and codification of the Jahiliyyah: 'Antarah became one of the Six Poets, a collection of pre-Islamic ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • Two Arabic Travel Books

    Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga

    by Tim Mackintosh-Smith, James E. Montgomery, Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī, Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ...
    Series Book 17 - Library of Arabic Literature
    Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes on the lands and peoples of the Indian Ocean, from the Somali headlands to China and Korea. The early centuries of the Abbasid era witnessed a substantial network of maritime ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • War Songs

    by James E. Montgomery, ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād ...
    Series Book 11 - Library of Arabic Literature
    Poems of love and battle by Arabia’s legendary warriorFrom the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary warrior and poet. The black outcast son of an Arab father and an Ethiopian slave mother, 'Antarah ibn Shaddad struggled to win the recognition of his father and tribe. He defied social norms and, despite ... Read more

    $29.69 USD