Search Results for: Bruce Fudge

  • Part 2, an interview with Bruce Fudge: Who should read A Hundred and One Nights?

    Bruce Fudge, Professor of Arabic at the University of Geneva and author of Qurʾanic Hermeneutics: al-Ṭabrisī and the Craft of Commentary (2011), wanted to take a break from Qurʾan commentary to “read all the things that religious scholars told you not to read.” So, when an opportunity arose to translate a text for the Library […]

  • An interview with Bruce Fudge: A Hundred and One Nights and the “tip of the iceberg” of popular Arabic tales

    Bruce Fudge, Professor of Arabic at the University of Geneva and author of Qurʾanic Hermeneutics: al-Ṭabrisī and the Craft of Commentary (2011), wanted to take a break from Qurʾan commentary to “read all the things that religious scholars told you not to read.” So, when an opportunity arose to translate a text for the Library of […]

  • Al-Yūsī’s Discourses: Situating a Sufi Scholar in a Vivid Seventeenth-Century Morocco

    The peripatetic al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī was in his fifties, and arguably the most influential and well-known Moroccan intellectual of his generation, when he found himself sent by Moulay Ismāʿīl to live near the ruins of the Dilāʾ Sufi lodge. It was in this moment, when he was under quasi–house arrest by Morocco’s second Alawite ruler, that […]

  • Sea of Darkness, Land of Flowers: A Hundred and One Nights in the Times Literary Supplement

    Just in time for the forthcoming fall release of its English-only paperback, the Times Literary Supplement ran a wonderful review of Bruce Fudge’s A Hundred and One Nights a couple of weeks ago: “Stories, like salt and silk, travel trade routes. They mutate as they migrate, as they are passed from mouth to ear, from memory […]

  • LAL at MESA: Get thee to booth 72!

    And we’re off to the 2016 annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association this week (Nov. 17-19), with our usual array of discounted books—and, yes, swag—in tow! Come visit us at booth 72 at the Boston Marriott Copley Place starting tomorrow at 4 P.M. to stock up on new publications: Light in the Heavens Sayings of the Prophet […]

  • LAL presents: “The other Arabian Nights”

    In today’s The National, editor-translator Bruce Fudge talks about his just-published collection of wondrous tales known as A Hundred and One Nights—the less-renowned, purportedly older, sibling of A Thousand and One Nights—which features an almost entirely different set of stories, each one more thrilling, amusing, and disturbing than the last:  “”There are actually many many story collections like the Nights from […]

  • Forthcoming from LAL: A 19th-century traveler’s account of Sudan, a popular medieval cookbook, 101 Nights, and more

    At this year’s American Oriental Studies meeting (March 18-21), the Library of Arabic Literature revealed a dozen new titles that we can expect from the project in the coming years: LAL General Editor Philip Kennedy opened the panel by saying that the Library’s “corpus, not a canon” mantra has acquired a question mark. But he held […]