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This dazzling anthology features the work of seventy-nine outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world, from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, Syria in the north…
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Tawfiq al-Hakim is recognized as the undisputed creator of a literature of the theater. Among his best-known plays are The Sultan’s Dilemma and The Tree Climber . In this volume…
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Key selections of Egyptian authors by the world renowned, award-winning translator of Arabic fiction. Ideal introduction to the Arabic short story for anyone studying Arabic.
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Denys Johnson-Davies
A selection of the most important works of Egypt’s Nobel literature laureate
Presents the life and works of Denys Johnson-Davies, who was described by the late Edward Said as the leading Arabic-English translator of our time. With more than twenty-five volumes of…
Naguib Mahfouz
Published in Arabic in 1982, this imaginative and magical novel is a retelling of the tales of the Arabian Nights. Shaharazad, Maarouf the Cobbler, Aladdin, Sinbad, and even genies people…
Tawfiq Hakim
Naguib Mahfouz, the first and only writer of Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, wrote prolifically from the 1930s until shortly before his death in 2006. Here…
An alleyway of Tangier as seen through the eyes of a prostitute, the price paid by a sophisticated Cairene philanderer for his infatuation with a young bedouin girl, the callous…
Yahya Hakki
Describes individuals who somehow manage to scrape through life’s hardships.
Yusuf Idris
Yusuf Idris (1927-91), who belonged to the same generation of pioneering Egyptian writers as Naguib Mahfouz and Tawfiq al-Hakim, is widely celebrated as the father of the Arabic short story…
The hadith qudsi are the sayings of the Prophet divinely communicated to him. The present collection has been compiled from all the available books of hadith. The forty chosen here…
Tayeb Salih
The brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsession with the mysterious West and a desire to bite the hand that has half-fed him, has led…
Mohamed El-Bisatie
Set in a small village in the Nile Delta, this novella illustrates the social and sexual tensions of a community in which nothing is secret and the past haunts every…
Sakeena’s life revolves round trying to provide her family with the necessary daily loaves of bread that will stave off starvation. Labor-shy Zaghloul works on and off at one of…
Sakeena’s life revolves round trying to provide her family with the necessary daily bread that will stave off starvation. Her husband Zaghloul works on and off at one of the…
Buthaina Al Nasiri
A collection of short stories that focuses on love and death and the passage between entry into the world and exit from it. It reflects the author’s deeply felt nostalgia…
Zakaria Tamer
Introduces readers the author’s world: his house (with the djinn girl who lives in his bedroom), his garden (where he wishes to be a tree), and his best friend the…
The Wedding of Zein takes place in the same village on the upper Nile where Salih’s Season of Migration to the North is largely set, but here the story that…
Ahmad Ibn Taymiyya
Exclusively based on what the Prophet Muhammad himself said and did, this title is one of the most referred to works on prayer and the merits of prayer. Bilingual Arabic-English…
Yahya b. Sharaf al-Nawawi
This collection of forty hadith by one of the most famous compilers of hadith is generally regarded as the most popular anthology and the best introduction to the study of…
Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
This is the eleventh chapter of Revival of the Religious Sciences which is widely regarded as the greatest work of Muslim spirituality. This volume begins the section dealing with the…
A collection of short fiction from the Arabian Gulf. It tells of those times and the almost unbelievable changes that have come about in the space of two generations.
