Edited and Translated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
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A PHYSICIAN ON THE NILE: A DESCRIPTION OF EGYPT AND JOURNAL OF THE FAMINE YEARS
by ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī
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Edited and Translated by Mario Kozah
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THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATAÑJALI
by Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī
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Edited and Translated by Justin Stearns
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THE DISCOURSES: REFLECTIONS ON HISTORY, SUFISM, THEOLOGY, AND LITERATURE
by al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī
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Edited and Translated by Julia Bray
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STORIES OF PIETY AND PRAYER:
DELIVERANCE FOLLOWS ADVERSITY
by Al-Muhassin Ibn 'Alī Al-Tanūkhī
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ARABIC HUMANITIES, ISLAMIC THOUGHT:
ESSAYS IN HONOR OF EVERETT K. ROWSON
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The Hajj: Pilgrimage in Islam
This volume pays attention to the diverse aspects of the Hajj, as lived every year by hundreds of millions of Muslims, touching on its rituals, its regional forms, the role of gender, its representation in art, and its organization on a global scale.
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John Gorrie
A Maiden of Mauritius
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Sir John Gorrie (1829-1892) began colonial life on Mauritius in 1869, where he was posted as Substitute Procureur-General, and subsequently appointed third then second Puisne Judge. He was called to Fiji as Chief Justice in 1876; became Chief Judicial Commissioner of the Western Pacific High Commission in 1878; knighted in 1881; was Chief Justice successively of the Leeward Islands (1882) Trinidad (1888), and of Trinidad and Tobago until 1892. His unpublished novel was discovered almost a century after his death. He was a respected colonial judge, albeit defiantly and decidedly not on the side of the ruling classes where he was posted. He believed that everyone, irrespective of race, was equal before the law, and his efforts to practice what he preached led him down many difficult paths... By publishing his hitherto unknown novel, it is our hope that we are making a further contribution to unravelling the complex legacy of empire as well as offering new insights into the life and work of this early champion of equal human rights.
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CONSORTS OF THE CALIPHS WOMEN AND THE COURT OF BAGHDAD Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts to those in power, most of them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter-day caliphs and sultans. Purchase the dual-language hardcover from LAL/NYU Press Purchase the English-only paperback from LAL/NYU Press |
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The City That Never Sleeps
Poems of New York
“New York, the city that never sleeps, contains more light than all the myriad heavens conceived of by its denizens of every possible race, religion, culture, color, and creed combined. All poets are besotted with light: it is the most transformative of all phenomena and we are permanently drunk on it—moon mad, sun blind, star struck.”
— from the Foreword by Anne Pierson Wiese
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The City That Never Sleeps
Poems of New York
“New York, the city that never sleeps, contains more light than all the myriad heavens conceived of by its denizens of every possible race, religion, culture, color, and creed combined. All poets are besotted with light: it is the most transformative of all phenomena and we are permanently drunk on it—moon mad, sun blind, star struck.”
— from the Foreword by Anne Pierson Wiese
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Edited and translated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith and James E. Montgomery
Volume editors Shawkat M. Toorawa and Philip F. Kennedy TWO ARABIC TRAVEL BOOKS By Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī and Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān Purchase the hardcover from LAL/NYU Press Purchase the paperback Mission to the Volga Purchase the paperback Accounts of China and India |
Edited and Translated by Th. Emil Homerin
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Volume editor Shawkat M. Toorawa A TREASURY OF VIRTUES: SAYINGS, SERMONS AND TEACHINGS OF 'ALI, WITH THE ONE HUNDRED PROVERBS ATTRIBUTED TO AL-JAHIZ By al-Qāḍī al-Quḍāʿī Purchase the hardcover from LAL/NYU Press Purchase the paperback from LAL/NYU Press |
Dev Virahsawmy
Flame Tree Lane / Lenpas Flanbwayan
Edited and translated by Shawkat M. Toorawa
Another important literary, political—and this time also ecological—intervention by the preeminent Morisien (Mauritian Creole) writer. Foreword by Françoise Lionnet.
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Roger Allen and Shawkat M. Toorawa, editors
Islam
A Short Guide to the Faith
A straightforward and authoritative collection of fifteen essays—each by a different,
specialized expert in the field. Foreword by Bruce Lawrence.
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Gregor Schoeler
The Genesis of Literature in Islam
From the Aural to the Read
revised edition in collaboration with and translated by Shawkat M. Toorawa
A study of the transition from predominantly oral and aural to written scholarship
and in the transmission of knowledge.
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Shawkat M. Toorawa, editor
The Western Indian Ocean
Essays on Islands and Islanders
Six thought-provoking essays by scholars of Mauritius and other Indian Ocean islands, exploring the experiences of islanders past and present, of placement and displacement, of locals and globals. Foreword by Megan Vaughan.
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Shawkat M. Toorawa, editor
AZAD BILGRAMI’S SHIFA AL-‘ALIL
Facsimile of Ms Dawawin 1113 in the Andhra Pradesh
Government Oriental Manuscripts
Library and Research Institute
HYDERABAD, (Hyderabad: APGOMLRI, 2007)
Michael Cooperson and Shawkat M. Toorawa, editors
Arabic Literary Culture, 500–925
A collection of 37 biographical essays about key figures in Arabic literary culture of the first five centuries.
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Contents
Shawkat M. Toorawa
Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr and Arabic Writerly Culture
A ninth-century bookman in Baghdad
A study of a figure illustrative of the shift from oral and aural to increasingly writerly modes of production.
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Adonis
A Time Between Ashes and Roses, Poems
Translation, critical Arabic edition & Afterword by Shawkat M. Toorawa
The first translation of an influential 1972 collection of poems by the preeminent modern Arabic poet. Foreword by Nasser Rabbat.
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Joseph E. Lowry, Devin J. Stewart and Shawkat M. Toorawa, editors
Law and Education in Medieval Islam
Studies in Memory of George Makdisi
A volume focusing on legal education and its place in classical and medieval Islamic civilization, comprises eight articles, seven by former students of Makdisi from the University of Pennsylvania, one by friend and colleague, Bernard Weiss, and a Foreword by another friend and colleague, Edward Peters.
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Kristen Brustad, Michael Cooperson, Jamal J. Elias, Nuha N. N. Khoury, Joseph E. Lowry, Nasser Rabbat, Dwight F. Reynolds, Devin J. Stewart and Shawkat M. Toorawa | Dwight F. Reynolds, editor
Interpreting the Self
Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition
A collaboratively authored study, countering the prevailing view of autobiography as Western and European, and rethinking its place within Arabic literary studies.
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