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  • War Songs

    par 'Antarah ibn Shaddad, James E Montgomery, Richard Sieburth, Peter Cole ...
    Collections Livre 41 - Library of Arabic Literature
    Poems of love and battle by Arabia's legendary warriorFrom the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary warrior and poet. The black outcast son of an Arab father and an Ethiopian slave mother, 'Antarah ibn Shaddad struggled to win the recognition of his father and tribe. He defied social norms and, despite ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Fate the Hunter

    Early Arabic Hunting Poems

    par James E. Montgomery ...
    Collections series Library of Arabic Literature
    A rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the huntIn the poems of Fate the Hunter, many of them translated into English for the first time, trained cheetahs chase oryx, and goshawks glare from falconers’ arms, while archers stalk their prey across the desert plains and mountain ravines of the Arabian peninsula. With this collection, James E. Montgomery, ... En savoir plus

    $25.29 CAD

  • Kalīlah and Dimnah

    Fables of Virtue and Vice

    par Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ ...
    Traduit par Michael Fishbein, James E. Montgomery ...
    Collections Livre 91 - Library of Arabic Literature
    Timeless fables of loyalty and betrayalLike Aesop’s Fables, Kalīlah and Dimnah is a collection designed not only for moral instruction, but also for the entertainment of readers. The stories, which originated in the Sanskrit Panchatantra and Mahabharata, were adapted, augmented, and translated into Arabic by the scholar and state official Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ in the second/eighth century. The stories ... En savoir plus

    $13.19 CAD

  • In Deadly Embrace

    Arabic Hunting Poems

    Traduit par James E. Montgomery ...
    par al-Muʿtazz Ibn ...
    Collections series Library of Arabic Literature
    A collection of poems about nature and powerTo Ibn al-Muʿtazz and his Abbasid contemporaries, the hunt was more than a diversion—it was the theater for their poetic and political endeavors, captured here in fifty-nine Arabic hunting poems, or ṭardiyyāt. The poems of In Deadly Embrace describe hunting expeditions with animals trained to hunt, including saluki hounds and birds of prey. Many were ... En savoir plus

    $12.09 CAD

  • The Oral and the Written in Early Islam

    par Gregor Schoeler, Uwe Vagelpohl, James E. Montgomery ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
    Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and received cultural articulation among the Muslim societies of the first two centuries of the Hijra. ... En savoir plus

    $114.99 CAD

  • Mission to the Volga

    Traduit par James E. Montgomery ...
    par Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ...
    Collections Livre 28 - Library of Arabic Literature
    The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in ArabicMission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia.In this colorful documentary from the tenth century, the enigmatic Ibn Fadlan relates his ... En savoir plus

    $13.19 CAD

  • Two Arabic Travel Books

    Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga

    par Tim Mackintosh-Smith, James E. Montgomery, Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī, Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ...
    Collections Livre 17 - Library of Arabic Literature
    Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes on the lands and peoples of the Indian Ocean, from the Somali headlands to China and Korea. The early centuries of the Abbasid era witnessed a substantial network of maritime ... En savoir plus

    $37.39 CAD

  • In Deadly Embrace

    Arabic Hunting Poems

    par James E. Montgomery, al-Muʿtazz Ibn ...
    Collections series Library of Arabic Literature
    A collection of poems about nature and powerTo Ibn al-Muʿtazz and his Abbasid contemporaries, the hunt was more than a diversion—it was the theater for their poetic and political endeavors, captured here in fifty-nine Arabic hunting poems, or ṭardiyyāt. The poems of In Deadly Embrace describe hunting expeditions with animals trained to hunt, including saluki hounds and birds of prey. Many were ... En savoir plus

    $25.29 CAD

  • Kalīlah and Dimnah

    Fables of Virtue and Vice

    par Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ ...
    Traduit par Michael Fishbein, James E. Montgomery ...
    Collections Livre 76 - Library of Arabic Literature
    Timeless fables of loyalty and betrayalLike Aesop’s Fables, Kalīlah and Dimnah is a collection designed not only for moral instruction, but also for the entertainment of readers. The stories, which originated in the Sanskrit Panchatantra and Mahabharata, were adapted, augmented, and translated into Arabic by the scholar and state official Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ in the second/eighth century. The stories ... En savoir plus

    $28.59 CAD

  • The Philosopher Responds

    An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century

    par Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh ...
    Traduit par Sophia Vasalou, James E. Montgomery ...
    Collections Livre 72 - Library of Arabic Literature
    Questions and answers from two great philosophersWhy is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, The Philosopher Responds is the record of a set of questions put by the litterateur Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī ... En savoir plus

    $13.19 CAD

  • The Philosopher Responds

    An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume Two

    par Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh ...
    Traduit par Sophia Vasalou, James E. Montgomery ...
    Collections Livre 24 - Library of Arabic Literature
    Questions and answers from two great philosophersWhy is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, The Philosopher Responds is the record of a set of questions put by the litterateur Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi ... En savoir plus

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Philosopher Responds

    An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume One

    par Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh ...
    Traduit par Sophia Vasalou, James E. Montgomery ...
    Collections Livre 19 - Library of Arabic Literature
    Questions and answers from two great philosophersWhy is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, The Philosopher Responds is the record of a set of questions put by the litterateur Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi ... En savoir plus

    $38.49 CAD