Thirteenth Warrior, The
Tigris River
translator
Transoxania
tribute (paid to the Khazar khāqān)
Turkic deities
Turks
Ṭūs
Ūrm
Ūrn
Uṭrūsh, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, al
Vassalage
Vikings
Volga River
Waiting for the Barbarians
Wārsh
Waṣīf ibn Sawārtakīn
wax; ear-wax
Wbnā
winds
Wīsū
Wtīʿ
W*rʿ
Yaʿqūb ibn al-Layth the Coppersmith
yabghū
Yāqūt ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥamawī
Yemen
Yilghiz
yilik
Yilṭawār
Yināl
Yurt. See also tent
Zamjān
Zaydiyyah
Zoroastrians. See also Majūs
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ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
James E. Montgomery is Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic and Fellow of Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge. He juggles many fascinations. Some of them he has had for many years now though he has probably discarded even more over the years. His current fascinations are: the body of writings attributed to al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 255/868–69); Arabic hunting poetry of the third/ninth century; the music of Björk and the poetry of Simon Armitage; the Library of Arabic Literature. He is lucky to have a wonderful wife, three amazing children, and two brilliant dogs. He is training to deadlift 200 kg and likes to get out of Cambridge and go to Yorkshire as often as possible.
THE LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATURE
For more details on individual titles, visit www.libraryofarabicliterature.org.
Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology
Selected and translated by Geert Jan van Gelder
A Treasury of Virtues: Sayings, Sermons and Teachings of ʿAlī, by al-Qāḍī al-Quḍāʿī with the One Hundred Proverbs attributed to al-Jāḥiẓ
Edited and translated by Tahera Qutbuddin
The Epistle on Legal Theory, by al-Shāfiʿī
Edited and translated by Joseph E. Lowry
Leg over Leg, by Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq
Edited and translated by Humphrey Davies
Virtues of the Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, by Ibn al-Jawzī
Edited and translated by Michael Cooperson
The Epistle of Forgiveness, by Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī
Edited and translated by Geert Jan van Gelder and Gregor Schoeler
The Principles of Sufism, by ʿĀʾishah al-Bāʿūniyyah
Edited and translated by Th. Emil Homerin
The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muḥammad, by Maʿmar ibn Rāshid
Edited and translated by Sean W. Anthony
Two Arabic Travel Books
Accounts of China and India, by Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī
Edited and translated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Mission to the Volga, by Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān
Edited and translated by James Montgomery
Disagreements of the Jurists: A Manual of Islamic Legal Theory, by al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān
Edited and translated by Devin J. Stewart
Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad, by Ibn al-Sāʿī
Edited by Shawkat M. Toorawa and translated by the Editors of the Library of Arabic Literature
What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us, by Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī
Edited and translated by Roger Allen
The Life and Times of Abū Tammām, by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Ṣūlī
Edited and translated by Beatrice Gruendler
The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt, by
ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nābulusī
Edited and translated by Luke Yarbrough
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded, by Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī
Edited and translated by Humphrey Davies
Light in the Heavens: Sayings of the Prophet Muḥammad, by al-Qāḍī al-Quḍāʿī
Edited and translated by Tahera Qutbuddin
Risible Rhymes, by Muḥammad ibn Maḥfūẓ al-Sanhūrī
Edited and translated by Humphrey Davies
A Hundred and One Nights
Edited and translated by Bruce Fudge
The Excellence of the Arabs, by Ibn Qutaybah
Edited by James E. Montgomery and Peter Webb
Translated by Sarah Bowen Savant and Peter Webb
Scents and Flavors: A Syrian Cookbook
Edited and translated by Charles Perry
ENGLISH-ONLY PAPERBACKS
Leg over Leg: Volumes One and Two, by Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq
Leg over Leg: Volumes Three and Four, by Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq
The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muḥammad, by Maʿmar ibn Rāshid
The Epistle on Legal Theory: A Translation of al-Shāfiʿī’s Risālah, by al-Shāfiʿī
The Epistle of Forgiveness, by Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī
The Principles of Sufism, by ʿĀʾishah al-Bāʿūniyyah
A Treasury of Virtues: Sayings, Sermons and Teachings of ʿAlī, by al-Qāḍī al-Quḍāʿī with The One Hundred Proverbs, attributed to al-Jāḥiẓ
The Life of Ibn Ḥanbal, by Ibn al-Jawzī
Mission to the Volga, by Ibn Faḍlān
Accounts of China and India, by Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī
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