Category - Literary Collections
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The Epistle on Legal Theory: A Translation of Al-Shafi'i's Risalah
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. I...
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Writings from Ancient Egypt
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A collection of rare texts from Ancient Egypt, newly translated for this essential edition The fascination that Ancient Egypt holds in our mind...
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Blind Owl (Authorized by the Sadegh Hedayat Foundation - First Translation Into English Based on the Bombay Edition)
HardcoverOriginal price $29.86 - Original price $29.86Original price $29.86$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece, the Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century. ...
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Folktales of the Jews, Volume 1: Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00Original price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00Current price $67.99$67.99 - $67.99Current price $67.99| /Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of the books in this series possible: Lloyd E. Cotsen; The Maurice Amado Foundation; t...
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The Birth of The Prophet: The Creation of The Prophet in Kahlil Gibran's Own Words
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Do you notice how full these things are of what we have said in talking together - sometimes years ago? There's nothing in them that doesn't come...
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The Book of Monasteries
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /A literary tour of Christian monasteries of the medieval Middle East The Book of Monasteries takes readers on an engaging tour of the monastic cent...
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The Essence of Reality: A Defense of Philosophical Sufism
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A groundbreaking exposition of Islamic mysticism The Essence of Reality was written over the course of just three days in 514/1120, by a scholar w...
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The Doctors' Dinner Party
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /A witty satire of the medical profession The Doctors' Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu....
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Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /A rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt In the poems of Fate the Hunter, many of them trans...
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Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Poems and tales of a literary forefather of the United Arab Emirates Love, Death, Fame features the poetry of al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir, who has been em...
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In Deadly Embrace: Arabic Hunting Poems
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /A collection of poems about nature and power To Ibn al-Muʿtazz and his Abbasid contemporaries, the hunt was more than a diversion--it was the theat...
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An Encounter with Dylan Thomas
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Abadan, 1951. Iran and Britain are bracing for battle over the continued British monopoly of Iran's oil. Twenty-nine-year-old Ebrahim Golestan, who...
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Father Takes a Drink and Other Memories of Iran
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Heydar Radjavi's memories of the 1930s and 1940s, when he was growing up in Iran (a country he describes as one that has been "in ambivalent flirta...
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Fasting for Ramadan Cloth
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /To go without food from dawn to dusk for the month of Ramadan - how does this feel? When we deny our major appetites, what do we become? Kazim Ali ...
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Garden of the Brave in War: Recollections of Iran
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /When Terence O'Donnell, an American who lived in Iran for fifteen years in the 1960s and 1970s, was asked what he was doing there, he replied, "The...
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Nizar Qabbani: Women in My Poetry and in My Life: Translated into English with an Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $30.25 - Original price $30.25Original price $30.25$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /In Nizar Qabbani's own words: "This book in which I have collected some of my dialogues with the press... and excerpts from TV interviews concernin...
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When Mountains Weep
PaperbackOriginal price $6.50 - Original price $6.50Original price $6.50$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /"Carrying a gun is not the way to better life. So, little Hamko go to school tomorrow and learn how to read and write, even if it is in the languag...
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Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Accounts of remarkable women at the world's most powerful court Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes ab...
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Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts...
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An Iraqi in Paris
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A fully revised third edition in translation of this best-selling 'gem of autobiographical writing' in the Arab world, by an author who has been ca...
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Absinthe: World Literature in Translation: Volume 28: Orphaned of Light: Translating Arab and Arabophone Migration
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Absinthe 28: Orphaned of Light features contemporary literature of migration translated from and to Arabic. In short stories, creative nonfiction e...
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NKJV, Pew Bible, Hardcover, Burgundy, Red Letter Edition
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The Thomas Nelson NKJV Pew Bible has long been a trusted and durable Bible for use in churches and various worship settings. This edition is publis...
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NKJV, Pew Bible, Hardcover, Black, Red Letter Edition
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The Thomas Nelson NKJV Pew Bible has long been a trusted and durable Bible for use in churches and various worship settings. This edition is publis...
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Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00Original price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00Current price $95.99$95.99 - $95.99Current price $95.99| /Ferdowsi's classic poem Shahnameh is part myth, part history-beginning with the legend of the birth of the Persian nation and its tumultuous histor...
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