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Discourses: Refl.On History, Sufism ... by AL-HASAN AL-YUS
$72.00 AUD
Category: Sufism | Series: Library of Arabic Literature Ser.
Wide-ranging essays on Moroccan history, Sufism, and religious life Al-Hasan al-Yusi was arguably the most influential and well-known Moroccan intellectual figure of his generation. In 1084/1685, at the age of roughly fifty-four, and after a long and distinguished career, this Amazigh scholar from t ...Show more
Epistle of Forgiveness by AL-MA`ARRI, A
$37.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Library of Arabic Literature Ser.
Known as "one of the most complex and unusual texts in Arabic literature" (Banipal Magazine), The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose writer, Abu l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri (d. 449/1057), to a letter by an obscure grammarian, Ibn al-Qari. With biting irony, The Epis ...Show more
Mission to the Volga by IBN FADLAN
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Category: Islam | Series: Library of Arabic Literature Ser.
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 north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia ...Show more
The Philosopher Responds - An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century by James E. Montgomery (Translator); Jonathan Rée (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sufism | Series: Library of Arabic Literature Ser.
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 a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, The Phil ...Show more
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