We are living in a moment of global change that requires new academic questions. For example, the so-called “Arab Spring” invites more complex understandings of East-West binaries, more nuanced analyses of the Arab and ...
In this absorbing transnational history, Alex Lubin reveals the vital connections between African American political thought and the people and nations of the Middle East. Spanning the 1850s through the present and set ...
The Prophet Muhammad has been revered for more than fifteen centuries. Today, one in five people throughout the world calls for daily praises and blessings upon him and holds him up as a model of virtue. In IMAGES OF ...
Kozah, Mario; Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahim; Al-Murikhi(Gorgias Press, )
This anthology includes the writings of a number of Syriac monastic and ascetical writers from the seventh century who were born and educated in Beth Qatraye (Syriac for Qatar or Region of the Qataris). Isaac of Qatar ...
Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist is the first English translation of the memoirs of Anbara Salam Khalidi, an iconic Arab feminist. At a time when women have played a leading role in the Arab Spring, this book brings to ...
Introducing readers to the extremely rich tradition of Arabic literature, this anthology covers some of its major themes and concerns across the centuries, from its early beginnings to modern times. The texts chosen are a ...
This edited volume presents a number of Syriac monastic and ascetical writers from the seventh century who were born and educated in Beth Qatraye (Syriac for Qatar or Region of the Qataris), of whom Isaac of Nineveh of ...
This book is the record of a debate that took place in the early tenth century between the famous Ismaili missionary Abu Hatim al-Razi and the even more celebrated Abu Bakr al-Razi, a physician and philosopher who was known ...
The Compendious Commentary by the Church of the East monk Dadishoʿ Qaṭraya (7th cent.) was originally written in Syriac, but was eventually translated into Garshuni or Syro-Arabic. It is a work aimed at immersing the novice ...
This work presents in English translation the sayings and stories of Jesus in Arabic Islamic literature. In doing so, it traces a tradition of love and reverence for Jesus that has characterized Islamic though for more ...
Jawdat R. Haydar (1905–2006) was a prominent Lebanese poet from Baalbek who contributed to world literature in the English language and was the author of several books of poetry. This edited volume of the proceedings of ...
Khalidi, Tarif; Abu Husayn, Abdul Rahim; Murad, Sleiman(AUB Press, )
Kamal S. Salibi is primarily renowned for his monumental contributions to the history of Lebanon. Yet, his scholarly legacy extends well beyond Lebanon to topics that span the Middle East from biblical to contemporary ...
In this work, Mario Kozah closely examines the pioneering contribution by Bīrūnī (d. ca. 1048) to the study of comparative religion in his major work on India. Kozah concludes that a process of Islamisation is employed ...
Dr. Waterbury and his wife, Sarah, left Lebanon with a sense of what binds the Lebanese together, a sense of style, and a sense of how to deal with others, even if one doesn't particularly like those others. Lebanese have ...