Literature & The Arts

Waleed ZiadHardback, 368 pages9780674248816   Sufis created the most extensive Muslim revivalist network in Asia before the twentieth century, gene...

Barbara Watson Andaya,‎ Leonard Y. Andaya Paperback, 376 pages 9780521681933   ContentsIntroduction Conceptualizing an Early Modern History of Sout...

John D. HoslerHardback, 384 pages9780300255140   The first full account of the medieval struggle for Jerusalem, from the seventh to the thirteenth ...

Amyn B. Sajoo Paperback 9781845117160

Benjamin Storey, Jenna Silber StoreyPaperback, 264 pages9780691220116   On the Modern Quest for Contentment   A compelling exploration of how our p...

Ahmad Ibn Fadlan James E. Montgomery (translation)Paperback, 108 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479899890   The earliest surviving instance of sustai...

Muhammad al-TunisiHumphrey Davies (translation)Paperback, 430 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479804443   A merchant’s remarkable travel account of an...

Abd al-Latif al-BaghdadiTim Mackintosh-Smith (translation)Paperback, 288 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479820078 A Description of Egypt and Journal ...

Abu Zayd al-SirafiTim Mackintosh-Smith (translation)Paperback, 124 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479830596   The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed...

Muhammad al-MuwaylihiRoger Allen (translation)Paperback, 524 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479840915   Trenchant and witty critiques of life in Cair...

Hanna DiyabElias Muhanna (translation)Paperback, 468 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479820016   The adventures of the man who created Aladdin   The B...

Yusuf al-Shirbini and Muhammad ibn Mahfuz al-SanhuriHumphrey Davies (translation)Paperback, 380 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479829668   Satires of...

Yusuf al-ShirbiniHumphrey Davies (translation)Paperback, 320 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479840212   Satires of rural society in Ottoman Egypt   W...

Ibn al-Sa'iPaperback, 176 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479866793   Accounts of remarkable women at the world's most powerful court   Consorts of th...

ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-NābulusīLuke Yarbrough (translation)Paperback, 224 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479824786   Patronage, power, and competitio...

al-Hasan al-YusiPaperback, 280 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479810581   Wide-ranging essays on Moroccan history, Sufism, and religious life   al-Ha...

Hmedan al-Shewe'irMarcel Kurpershoek (translation)Paperback, 206 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479885169   Satirical verse on society and its hypocr...

ʿAbdallāh ibn SbayyilMarcel Kurpershoek (translation)Paperback, 328 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479804405   Scenes from Arabian life at the turn o...

Ibn QutaybahSarah Bowen Savant, Peter Webb (translation)Paperback, 224 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479899265   A spirited defense of Arab identity...

Hans VisserPaperback, 296 pagesThird edition9781800888388   This timely book investigates the ideas and concepts that drive and shape Islamic finan...

Chiara FormichiPaperback, 348 pages9781107513976   Chiara Formichi explores the ways in which Islam and Asia have shaped each other's histories, so...

Shahla HaeriPaperback, 278 pages9781107554894   In this landmark study, Shahla Haeri offers the extraordinary biographies of several Muslim women r...

Omar Ibn Said, Ala AlryyesPaperback, 224 pages9780299249540   Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and s...

Özgür KocaHardback, 296 pages9781108496346   From the Medieval to the Modern Era   "This learned and perspicacious book is one of the most importan...