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    In Deadly Embrace

    Ibn al-Mu?tazz

    A collection of poems about nature and power

    To Ibn al-Mu?tazz and his Abbasid contemporaries, the hunt was more than a diversion-it was the theater for their poetic and political…

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    A Demon Spirit

    Abu Nuwas

    Verses on hunter and quarry from a giant of Arabic poetry

    Arguably the greatest poet of the Arabic language, Abu Nuwas was renowned for his innovations in poetic genre and…

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    Fate the Hunter

    A rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt

    In the poems of Fate the Hunter, many of them translated into English…

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    Diwan ‘Antarah ibn Shaddad: A Literary-Historical Study

    James E. Montgomery

    The pre-Islamic warrior-poet ‘Antarah ibn Shaddad, a composer of one of the Mu'allaqat, attracted the attention of the philologists who were active in Iraq at the nascence of the scholarly…

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    Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books: In Praise of Books

    James E. Montgomery

    Al-Jahiz was a bibliomaniac, theologian and spokesman for the political and cultural elite, a writer who lived in Iraq during the first century of the Abbasid caliphate. This book introduces…

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    Fate the Hunter

    "An anthology of Arabic hunting poetry from the pre-Islamic and early Islamic eras"--

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    War Songs

    'Antarah ibn Shaddad

    Poems of love and battle by Arabia’s legendary warrior

    From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident…

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    In Deadly Embrace

    Ibn al-Mu?tazz

    "Arabic hunting poetry from the Abbasid era, by renowned poet Ibn al-Mutazz"--

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    The Oral and the Written in Early Islam

    Gregor Schoeler (University of Basel, Switzerland),Uwe Vagelpohl,James E. Montgomery (University of Cambridge, UK)

    Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated in English for the first time, Gregor Schoeler gives a comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken…

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    The Oral and the Written in Early Islam

    Gregor Schoeler (University of Basel, Switzerland),Uwe Vagelpohl,James E. Montgomery (University of Cambridge, UK)

    Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated in English for the first time, Gregor Schoeler gives a comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken…

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    Kalilah and Dimnah

    Ibn al-Muqaffa?

    "A collection of stories designed for the moral instruction and entertainment of readers"--

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    Mission to the Volga

    Ahmad ibn Fadlan

    The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic

    Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move…

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    Kalilah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice

    Ibn al-Muqaffa

    Timeless fables of loyalty and betrayal

    Like Aesop’s Fables, Kalilah and Dimnah is a collection designed not only for moral instruction, but also for the entertainment of readers. The stories…

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    War Songs

    'Antarah ibn Shaddad

    Poems of love and battle by Arabia’s legendary warrior

    From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident…

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    Two Arabic Travel Books: Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga

    Abu Zayd al-Sirafi,Ahmad ibn Fadlan

    Combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. This book offers a description of the Viking Rus, including their customs…

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    Islamic Crosspollinations: Interactions in the Medieval Middle East

    James Montgomery,Anna Akasoy,Peter E. Pormann

    Islam as a cultural, intellectual, and religious venture appears in the popular imagination as a monolithic entity.

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    The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century

    Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi,Abu 'Ali Miskawayh

    Questions and answers from two great philosophers

    Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning…

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    The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume Two

    Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi,Abu 'Ali Miskawayh

    Questions and answers from two great philosophers

    Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning…

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    The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume One

    Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi,Abu 'Ali Miskawayh

    Questions and answers from two great philosophers

    Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning…

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    Speaking of Alabama: The History, Diversity, Function, and Change of Language

    Presents informative and entertaining essays on the accents, dialects, and speech patterns particular to Alabama. Thomas Nunnally’s fascinating volume presents essays by linguists who examine with affection and curiosity the…

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    Spirit Service: Vodun and Vodou in the African Atlantic World

    Known in the Dominican Republic and Togo as Vodu, in Benin as Vodun, and in Haiti as Vodou, West African religion has, for hundreds of years, served as a repository…

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    Spirit Service: Vodun and Vodou in the African Atlantic World

    Known in the Dominican Republic and Togo as Vodu, in Benin as Vodun, and in Haiti as Vodou, West African religion has, for hundreds of years, served as a repository…

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