The Library of Arabic Literature publishes authoritative Arabic editions and modern, lucid English translations. Some titles in the series, however, have ancillary or supplementary materials that could not be included in the published books. In those cases, we make those materials available on this page, which we will add to as more titles are published. We also include below errata and corrigenda.
Love, Death, Fame, by al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir. Edited and translated by Marcel Kurpershoek
• Glossary of Style, Themes, and Motifs
• Glossary of Arabic Vocabulary
The Book of Charlatans, by Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī. Edited by Manuela Dengler and translated by Humphrey Davies.
• Appendix I: Vocabulary of Rare Words and Phrases Occurring in The Book of Charlatans
• Appendix II: Plants and Fungi Mentioned in The Book of Charlatans
Impostures, by al-Ḥarīrī. Translated by Michael Cooperson.
• Solution to crossword puzzle (p. 337)
Arabian Romantic, by ʿAbdallāh ibn Sbayyil. Edited and translated by Marcel Kurpershoek. Reviewed by Saad Sowayan.
• Transliteration of the Arabic text
Arabian Satire, by Ḥmēdān al-Shwēʿir. Edited and translated by Marcel Kurpershoek. Reviewed by Saad Sowayan.
• Transliteration of the Arabic text
Scents and Flavors. Edited and translated by Charles Perry.
• Supplement: additional recipes
Excellence of the Arabs, by Ibn Qutaybah. Edited by James E. Montgomery and Peter Webb. Translated by Sarah Bowen Savant and Peter Webb.
• List of errata (hardcover dual edition)
A Treasury of Virtues: Sayings, Sermons and Teachings of ʿAlī, by al-Qāḍī al-Quḍāʿī. Edited and translated by Tahera Qutbuddin.
• List of errata (hardcover dual edition)
Click below to download a free 10-page e-book sample of part of this title—One Hundred Proverbs, attributed to al-Jāḥiẓ—available in two formats:
• ePub
The Epistle on Legal Theory, by al-Shāfiʿī. Edited and translated by Joseph E. Lowry.
• List of errata (hardcover dual edition)
Leg Over Leg, by Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq. Edited and translated by Humphrey Davies.
• List of errata (hardcover dual edition)
The Epistle of Forgiveness, by Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī. Edited and translated by Geert Jan van Gelder and Gregor Schoeler.
• List of errata (hardcover dual edition)
The Principles of Sufism, by ʿĀʾishah al-Bāʿūnīyah. Edited and translated by Th. Emil Homerin.
• List of errata (hardcover dual edition)
Note: The editors regret that, due to a misprinting, a number of errors appear in the first hardcover printing of this title. This was immediately rectified with a second printing in May 2014. Readers wishing to exchange their first-print hardcover copies for the corrected second printing are invited to contact LAL’s Associate Editor, Lucie Taylor, at lucie.taylor@nyu.edu. The attached errata pertains to the original misprinting, and lists only important typographical errors. The misprint does not affect the paperback edition.
Mission to the Volga by Ibn Faḍlān. Edited and translated by James E. Montgomery.
• Web-only materials, as advertised in “A Note on the Text” on page 184-5: Extended Glossary, Ibn Fadlan’s Logbook, Web Bibliography, Yāqūt’s Quotations
• Web-only alternative edition of Ibn Faḍlān’s Book
Disagreements of the Jurists, by Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān. Edited and translated by Devin J. Stewart.
• Amended pages, pp. 72 and 90: Two Arabic footnotes were accidentally left off the printed version of these pages. These will be corrected in future printings.
Consorts of the Caliphs, by Ibn al-Sāʿī. Edited by Shawkat M. Toorawa and translated by the Editors of the Library of Arabic Literature.