Library of Arabic Literature Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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KALILAH AND DIMNAH by Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, translated by Michael Fishbein and James E. Montgomery, includes entertaining, edifying fables and an insightful new foreword by @marina_warn. New in paperback, April 2023. https://t.co/BvfmUAFVVO

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Happy #BookBirthday🎂 to A Physician on the Nile by ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī, ed. & transl. by Tim Mackintosh-Smith! The book describes everyday life in Egypt in the 13th c. and offers a harrowing account of famine and plague. It's also a pioneering work of ancient Egyptology. https://t.co/uFnmmNNFLl

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"Love is. . . an ocean without a shore, a jewel without a price, and a light without darkness." - ʿĀ’ishah al-Bāʿūniyyah (d. 923/1517), The Principles of Sufism, translated by Th. Emil Homerin https://t.co/aaEBWnquVA

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NEW from the blog! Check out this new interview with @ajnaddaff and Hilary Kilpatrick about The Book of Monasteries (coming soon from LAL). Stay tuned for Part 2 of the interview! https://t.co/PiEQvSovMy

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Happy #BookBirthday to The Requirements of the Sufi Path by Ibn Khaldūn, edited and translated by Carolyn Baugh! In this book, renowned North African historian and jurist Ibn Khaldūn applies his analytical powers to Sufism, which he deems a bona fide form of Islamic piety. https://t.co/8RyNig5ScA

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"Love is an affliction in perpetual motion that offers no escape to the smartest game." - Abdallah ibn Sbayyil, Arabian Romantic, translated by Marcel Kurpershoek https://t.co/3vp0OlWGr7

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We can't wait to read this article! In the meantime, this is a great time to revisit @RachelSchine's article for our blog, "Race-Conscious Pedagogies through the Library of Arabic Literature": https://t.co/6awFALUxh5 https://t.co/RzN77lQwFp

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Happy #BookBirthday to Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems edited & transl. by James Montgomery! The book is an anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic hunting poems including the works of Imruʾ al-Qays, al-Shanfarā, al-Shamardal ibn Sharīk, and Abd al-Ḥamīd al-Kātib https://t.co/PyfaZRu4c8

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In case you missed it: Prof. Leyla Rouhi offers a feminist reading of Consorts of the Caliphs in "On Gender and Translation" on the LAL blog: https://t.co/sGEnQnrqyW

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"The best books on Sufi philosophy" according to Mohammed Rustom, editor-translator of The Essence of Reality by 'Ayn al-Qudat. Find out which book "literally rocked my world when I read it," he writes, and which is "not for the faint of heart": https://t.co/d7gKXKFXll