LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Welcome to the Library of Arabic Literature!
The Library of Arabic Literature is a new series offering Arabic editions and English translations of key works of classical and premodern Arabic literature, as well as anthologies and thematic readers. Books in the series are edited and translated by distinguished scholars of Arabic and Islamic studies, and are published in parallel-text format with Arabic and English on facing pages. The Library of Arabic Literature includes texts from the pre-Islamic era to the cusp of the modern period, and will encompass a wide range of genres, including poetry, poetics, fiction, religion, philosophy, law, science, history and historiography.
Supported by a grant from the New York University Abu Dhabi Institute, and established in partnership with NYU Press, the Library of Arabic Literature produces authoritative Arabic editions and modern, lucid English translations, with the goal of introducing the Arabic literary heritage to scholars and students, as well as to a general audience of readers.
Philip F. Kennedy
General Editor, Library of Arabic Literature
FORTHCOMING TITLES
Classical Arabic LiteratureA Library of Arabic Literature Anthology
Edited and Translated by Geert Jan Van Gelder
A Treasury of VirtuesSayings, Sermons, and Teachings of Ali, with the One Hundred Proverbs, attributed to al-Jahiz
By al-Qadi al-Qudai, Edited and Translated by Tahera Qutbuddin
Leg Over LegVolume Two
By Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Edited and Translated by Humphrey Davies
Leg Over LegVolume One
By Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Edited and Translated by Humphrey Davies
The Epistle of ForgivenessVolume One: A Vision of Heaven and Hell
By Abu l-Ala al-Maarri, Edited and Translated by Geert Jan Van Gelder, and Gregor Schoeler
The Epistle of ForgivenessVolume Two: Hypocrites, Heretics, and Other Sinners
By Abu l-Ala al-Maarri, Edited and Translated by Geert Jan Van Gelder, and Gregor Schoeler
The Epistle on Legal Theory
By al-Shafii, Edited and Translated by Joseph E. LowryThe Principles of Sufism
By 'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah, Edited and Translated by Th. Emil Homerin
Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn HanbalVolume One
By Ibn al-Jawzi, Edited and Translated by Michael Cooperson
