With What ‘Isa Ibn Hisham Said to Us The Library of Arabic Literature brings readers an award-winning masterpiece from the early 20th century of Arabic prose. Written by Egyptian journalist Muhammad al-Muwaylihi, this exceptional title first appeared in serial form by his family’s…
A vigorous argument in defense Arab identity during a period of political turmoilIn the 9th century Abbasid Baghdad the status of social standing associated with the assertion of Arab identity was beginning to wane. The book “The Excellence of Arabs The renowned poet…
The Greatness of the Arabs is a passionate defense of Arab identity –its virtues as well as its values and roots–at the time of political tension and disintegration that was written by one the foremost scholars from the early Abbasid period.…
Unique in pre-twentieth-century Arabic literature for taking the countryside as its central theme, Yusuf al-Shirbini’s Brains Confounded combines a mordant satire on seventeenth-century Egyptian rural society with a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day. in…