Islamic Studies Miscellany


 

 

Gonzalez, Valérie. Beauty and Islam: Aesthetics is Islamic Art and Architecture. London, I. B. Tauris in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2001.


Islamic Philosophy and Literature

History of Islamic philosophy / edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Oliver Leaman. (Routledge history of world philosophies; v. 1) London; New York: Routledge, 1996

The Introduction of Arabic philosophy into Europe / edited by Charles E. Butterworth and Blake Andrée Kessel. (Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, 0169-8125; Bd. 39) Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, 1994

Neoplatonism and Islamic thought / edited by Parviz Morewedge. (Studies in neoplatonism; v. 5) Albany: State University of New York Press, c1992

The World of Ibn Tufayl: interdisciplinary perspectives on Hayy ibn Yaqzan / edited by Lawrence I. Conrad. (Islamic philosophy, theology, and science; v. 24) Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, 1996

A history of Islamic philosophy / Majid Fakhry. (Studies in Oriental culture. no. 5) 2nd ed. New York: Columbia University Press: Longman, 1983

A history of Islamic philosophy. (Studies in Oriental culture. no. 5) New York: Columbia University Press, 1970

Philosophy, dogma, and the impact of Greek thought in Islam / Majid Fakhry. Altershot, Hampshire, Great Britain; Brookfield, Vt., USA: Variorum, 1994

"Classical Arabic Wisdom Literature: Nature and Scope." Journal of the American Oriental Society, 101:1 (1981:Jan./Mar.): 49-86

Greek thought, Arabic culture: the Graeco-Arabic translation movement in Baghdad and early Abbasid society (2nd-4th/8th-10th centuries) / Dimitri Gutas. London; New York: Routledge, 1998

Greek wisdom literature in Arabic translation: a study of the Graeco-Arabic gnomologia / by Dimitri Gutas. (American oriental series; v. 60) New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1975

An introduction to medieval Islamic philosophy / Oliver Leaman. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985

The political orientation of Islamic philosophy / Muhsin S. Mahdi. (Occasional papers series (Georgetown University. Center for Contemporary Arab Studies)) Washington, D.C.: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, c1982

Islamic studies: essays on law and society, the sciences, and philosophy and Sufism / Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1967

Muslim neoplatonists: an introduction to the thought of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa') / Ian Richard Netton. London; Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1982

Studies in the history of Arabic logic. [Pittsburgh] University of Pittsburgh Press, 1963 [i.e. 1964]

The wisdom of the mystic East: Suhrawardi and platonic orientalism / John Walbridge. (Albany: State University of New York Press, c2001.) Albany: State University of New York Press, c2001

Early philosophical Shiism: the Ismaili Neoplatonism of Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani / Paul E. Walker. (Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization) Cambridge [England]; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Islamic philosophy and theology. Edinburgh, University Press [1962]

Alon, Ilai. Socrates in mediaeval Arabic literature / by Ilai Alon. (Islamic philosophy, theology, and science; v. 10) Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, c1991

Arkoun, Mohammed. The unthought in contemporary Islamic thought / Mohammed Arkoun. London: Saqi in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, c2002

Arnaldez, Roger. Averroes: a rationalist in Islam / Roger Arnaldez; translated by David Streight. English language ed. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, c2000

Averroës, 1126-1198. Averroës' three short commentaries on Aristotle's "Topics," "Rhetoric," and "Poetics" / edited and translated by Charles E. Butterworth. (Studies in Islamic philosophy and science) 1st ed. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1977

Chittick, William C. The heart of Islamic philosophy: the quest for self-knowledge in the teachings of Afdal al-Din Kashani / William C. Chittick. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001

Corbin, Henry. History of Islamic philosophy / Henry Corbin; translated by Liadain Sherrard with the assistance of Philip Sherrard. (Philosophy, Islamic--History) London: New York: Kegan Paul International, 1993

Daiber, Hans, 1942-. Bibliography of Islamic philosophy / by Hans Daiber. (Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 43. Bd.) Leiden; Boston: Brill, 1999

Davidson, Herbert A. (Herbert Alan), 1932-. Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes on intellect: their cosmologies, theories of the active intellect, and theories of human intellect / Herbert A. Davidson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992

Fakhry, Majid. Ethical theories in Islam / by Majid Fakhry. (Islamic philosophy, theology, and science; v. 8) 2nd expanded ed. Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, 1994

Farabi. Al-Farabi on the perfect state: Abu Nasr al-Farabi's Mabadi ara ahl al-madina al-fadila: a revised text with introduction, translation, and commentary / by Richard Walzer. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1985

Frank, Richard M. Beings and their attributes: the teaching of the Basrian school of the Mu`tazila in the classical period / Richard MacDonough Frank. (Studies in Islamic philosophy and science) Albany: State University of New York Press, 1978

Ghazzali, 1058-1111. The incoherence of the philosophers = Tahafut al-falasifah: a parallel English-Arabic text / translated, introduced, and annotated by Michael E. Marmura. (Islamic translation series) 1st ed. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1997

Gianotti, Timothy J. Al-Ghazali's unspeakable doctrine of the soul: unveiling the esoteric psychology and eschatology of the Ihya / by Timothy J. Gianotti. (Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607; v. 104) Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2001

Goodman, Lenn E.. Jewish and Islamic Philosophy:Crosspollinations in the Classical Age. New Brunswick, Nj.: Rutgers University Press, 1999.

Notes: This book, by a professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, examines the relationships between Islamic and Jewish philosophy, less in a search for influences and origins than to explore what he describes as a genuine dialogue. Figures discussed include Muhammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi, Saadiah Gaon, Bahya ibn Paquda, Avicenna, Maimonides, Ibn Khaldun, and Spinoza.

Gutas, Dimitri. Avicenna and the Aristotelian tradition: introduction to reading Avicenna's philosophical works / by Dimitri Gutas. (Islamic philosophy and theology, 0169-8729; v. 4) Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, 1988

Gyekye, Kwame. Islamic logic: Ibn al-Tayyib's commentary on Porphyry's Eisagoge / by Kwame Gyekye. (Studies in Islamic philosophy and science) Albany: State University of New York Press, 1979

Heath, Peter, 1949-. Allegory and philosophy in Avicenna (Ibn Sînâ): with a translation of the book of the Prophet Muhammad's ascent to heaven / Peter Heath. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c1992

Kohlberg, Etan. A medieval Muslim scholar at work: Ibn Tawus and his library / by Etan Kohlberg. (Islamic philosophy, theology, and science, 0169-8729; v. 12) Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, 1992

Kraemer, Joel L. Philosophy in the renaissance of Islam: Abu Sulayman Al-Sijistani and his circle / by Joel L. Kraemer. (Studies in Islamic culture and history series. v. 8) Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1986

Leaman, Oliver. A brief introduction to Islamic philosophy / Oliver Leaman. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press; Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1999

Leaman, Oliver, 1950-. An introduction to classical Islamic philosophy / Oliver Leaman. 2nd ed. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Mahdi, Muhsin. Alfarabi and the foundation of Islamic political philosophy / Muhsin S. Mahdi; with a foreword by Charles E. Butterworth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. An annotated bibliography of Islamic science / Seyyed Hossein Nasr; with the collaboration of William C. Chittick. (Intisharat-i Anjuman-i Shahanshahi-i Falsafah-'i Iran; shumarah-i 1) Tehran: Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, 1975-

Netton, Ian Richard. Allah transcendent: studies in the structure and semiotics of Islamic philosophy, theology, and cosmology / Ian Richard Netton. (Exeter Arabic and Islamic series) London; New York: Routledge, 1989

Pines, Shlomo, 1908-. Studies in Arabic versions of Greek texts and in mediaeval science / by Shlomo Pines. (Pines, Shlomo, 1908- Works. 1979 v. 2.) Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1986

Rahman, Fazlur, 1919-. The philosophy of Mulla Sadra (Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi) / Fazlur Rahman. (Studies in Islamic philosophy and science) 1st ed. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1975

Rescher, Nicholas. Studies in Arabic philosophy. [Pittsburgh]: University of Pittsburgh Press, [1967 or 8]

Sharif, M. M. ed. A history of Muslim philosophy. with short accounts of other disciplines and the modern renaissance in Muslim lands. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 1963-66

Stroumsa, Sarah. Freethinkers of medieval Islam: Ibn al-Rawandi, Abu Bakr al-Razi and their impact on Islamic thought / by Sarah Stroumsa. (Islamic philosophy, theology, and science, 0169-8729; v. 35) Leiden; Boston: Brill, 1999

Walbridge, John. The leaven of the ancients: Suhrawardi and the heritage of the Greeks / John Walbridge. (SUNY series in Islam) Albany: State University of New York Press, c2000

Walker, Paul Ernest, 1941-. Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani: intellectual missionary / Paul E. Walker. (Ismaili heritage series) London; New York: I.B. Tauris in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies; New York, NY: Distributed in the U.S.A. by St Martin's Press, 1996

Walzer, Richard, 1900-. Greek into Arabic; essays on Islamic philosophy. Oxford, B. Cassirer [1962]

Watt, W. Montgomery (William Montgomery). Islamic philosophy and theology: an extended survey / W. Montgomery Watt. 2nd. ed. Edinburgh: University Press, 1985

Wheeler, Brannon M., 1965-. Applying the canon in Islam: the authorization and maintenance of interpretive reasoning in Hanafi scholarship / Brannon M. Wheeler. (SUNY series, toward a comparative philosophy of religions) Albany: State University of New York Press, c1996


Literary History and Criticism

The author and his doubles: essays on classical Arabic culture / Abdelfattah Kilito; translated by Michael Cooperson; with a foreword by Roger Allen. (Middle East literature in translation) 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2001

Encyclopedia of Arabic literature / edited by Julie Scott Meisami and Paul Starkey. London; New York: Routledge, 1998

Homoeroticism in classical Arabic literature / edited by J.W. Wright and Everett K. Rowson. New York: Columbia Univesity Press, 1997

Interpreting the self: autobiography in the Arabic literary tradition / edited by Dwight F. Reynolds; coauthored by Kristen E. Brustad .. [et al.]. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, c2001

Love and sexuality in modern Arabic literature / edited by Roger Allen, Hilary Kilpatrick and Ed de Moor. London: Saqi Books, 1995

Modern Arabic literature / edited by M.M. Badawi. (Cambridge history of Arabic literature) Cambridge [England]; New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Religion, learning, and science in the Abbasid period / edited by M.J.L. Young, J.D. Latham, and R.B. Serjeant. (Cambridge history of Arabic literature) Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Writing the self: autobiographical writing in modern Arabic literature / Robin Ostle, Ed de Moor & Stefan Wild (eds.). London: Saqi Books, 1998

Modern Arabic literature and the West / by M.M. Badawi. (Oxford Oriental monographs. 6.) London: Ithaca Press, 1985

Woman's body, woman's word: gender and discourse in Arabo-Islamic writing / Fedwa Malti-Douglas. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1991

Studies in modern Arabic prose and poetry / by Shmuel Moreh. Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, 1988

Muhammad and the golden bough: reconstructing Arabian myth / Jaroslav Stetkevych. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1996

The zephyrs of Najd: the poetics of nostalgia in the classical Arabic nasib / Jaroslav Stetkevych. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993

The mute immortals speak: pre-Islamic poetry and the poetics of ritual / by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych. (Myth and poetics) Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993

Abu-Lughod, Lila. Veiled sentiments: honor and poetry in a Bedouin society / Lila Abu-Lughod. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1986

Adunis, 1930-. An introduction to Arab poetics / Adonis; translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham. London: Saqi, 1990

Ajami, Mansour. The neckveins of winter: the controversy over natural and artificial poetry in medieval Arabic literary criticism / by Mansour Ajami. (Studies in Arabic literature; v. 9) Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984

Allen, Roger M. A. An introduction to Arabic literature / Roger Allen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Altoma, Salih J. Modern Arabic poetry in English translation: a bibliography / Salih J. Altoma. Tangier: Publications Of The King Fahd School Of Translation, 1993

Badawi, M. M. A short history of modern Arabic literature / M.M. Badawi. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993

Badawi, Muhammad Mustafá. A critical introduction to modern Arabic poetry / M. M. Badawi. Cambridge [Eng.]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975

Brugman, J. An introduction to the history of modern Arabic literature in Egypt / by J. Brugman. (Studies in Arabic literature. v. 10) Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984

Cantarino, Vicente, 1925-. Arabic poetics in the golden age: selection of texts accompanied by a preliminary study / by Vincente Cantarino. (Studies in Arabic literature. v. 4) Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1975

Caton, Steven Charles, 1950-. "Peaks of Yemen I summon": poetry as cultural practice in a North Yemeni tribe / Steven C. Caton. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1990

Cohen-Mor, Dalya, 1948-. A matter of fate: the concept of fate in the Arab world as reflected in modern Arabic literature / Dalya Cohen-Mor. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001

Gelder, Geert Jan van. The bad and the ugly: attitudes towards invective poetry (hija) in classical Arabic literature / by Geert Jan van Gelder. (Publication of the "De Goeje Fund," 0169-8303; no. 26) Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, 1988, c1989

Gibb, H. A. R. (Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen), Sir, 1895-1971.

  • Arabic literature, an introduction / H. A. R. Gibb 2d (rev.) ed. Oxford, Clarendon press, 1963

Gibb, Hamilton A. R.,

  • Studies on the Civilization of Islam, ed. by S.J. Shaw and W.R. Polk. Boston: Beacon Press, 1962.

Giffen, Lois Anita. Theory of profane love among the Arabs: the development of the genre. (New York University studies in Near Eastern civilization; no. 3.) New York, New York University Press; London: University of London Pres, 1971

Goldziher, Ignác. A short history of classical Arabic literature / Ignác Goldziher. Translated, rev. and enl. / by Joseph Desomogyi. Hildesheim, G. Olms, 1966

Hamori, Andras, 1940-. On the art of medieval Arabic literature. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, [1974]

Heinrichs, Wolfhart. The hand of the northwind: opinions on metaphor and the early meaning of isti ara in Arabic poetics / by Wolfhart Heinrichs (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes; Bd. 44, 2) 1. Aufl. [Mainz]: Deutsche Morgenl?ndische Ges.; Wiesbaden: Steiner [in Komm.], 1977

Huart, Clément, 1854-1926. A history of Arabic literature. Beirut, Khayats, 1966

Ibn al-Nadim, Muhammad ibn Ishaq, fl. 987. The Fihrist of al-Nadim; a tenth-century survey of Muslim culture. Bayard Dodge, editor and translator. (Records of civilization, sources and studies. no. 83) New York, Columbia University Press, 1970

Jayyusi, Salma Khadra. Trends and movements in modern Arabic poetry / by Salma Khadra Jayyusi. (Studies in Arabic literature. v. 6) Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1977

Kennedy, Philip F. The wine song in classical Arabic poetry: Abu Nuwas and the literary tradition / Philip F. Kennedy. (Oxford Oriental monographs) Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997

Kilpatrick, Hilary. The modern Egyptian novel: a study in social criticism / Hilary Kilpatrick (St. Antony's Middle East monographs. no. 1) London: Ithaca Press for the Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College, 1974

Lyons, M. C. (Malcolm Cameron). The Arabian epic: heroic and oral story-telling / M.C. Lyons. (University of Cambridge oriental publications; no. 49.) Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Makar, Ragai N. Modern Arabic literature: a bibliography / Ragai N. Makar . (Scarecrow area bibliographies; 17.) Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, c1998

Malti-Douglas, Fedwa. Structures of avarice: the Bukhala in medieval Arabic literature / by Fedwa Malti-Douglas. (Studies in Arabic literature. v. 11) Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1985

Meeker, Michael E. Literature and violence in North Arabia / Michael E. Meeker. (Cambridge studies in cultural systems) Cambridge, Eng.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979

Montgomery, James E. The vagaries of the Qasidah: the tradition and practice of early Arabic poetry / James E. Montgomery. (Gibb literary studies; no. 1) [Cambridge, England?]: E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust, c1997

Moreh, Shmuel. Modern Arabic poetry 1800-1970: the development of its forms and themes under the influence of Western literature / by S. Moreh. (Studies in Arabic literature. v. 5) Leiden: Brill, 1976

Nicholson, Reynold Alleyne, 1868-1945. A literary history of the Arabs / by Reynold A. Nicholson. Second edition. Cambridge, The university press, 1930

Nykl, Alois Richard, 1885-. Hispano-Arabic poetry, and its relations with the old Provençal troubadours / by A.R. Nykl. Baltimore: J.H. Furst, 1946

Ouyang, Wen-chin. Literary criticism in medieval Arabic-Islamic culture: the making of a tradition / Wen-chin Ouyang. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c1997

Sallis, Eva. Sheherazade through the looking glass: the metamorphosis of the Thousand and One Nights / Eva Sallis. Richmond: Curzon, 1999

Somekh, Sasson. Genre and language in modern Arabic literature / Sasson Somekh. (Studies in Arabic language and literature, 0939-818X; v. 1) Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1991

Sowayan, Saad Abdullah. Nabati poetry: the oral poetry of Arabia / Saad Abdullah Sowayan. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1985

Sperl, Stefan, 1950-. Mannerism in Arabic poetry: a structural analysis of selected texts (3rd century AH/9th century AD-5th century AH/11th century AD) / Stefan Sperl. (Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization) Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989

Stetkevych, Jaroslav. The modern Arabic literary language; lexical and stylistic developments. Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1970]

Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney. Abu Tammam and the poetics of the Abbasid age / by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych. (Studies in Arabic literature, 0169-9903; v. 13) Leiden; New York: Brill, 1991

Von Grunebaum, Gustave E. (Gustave Edmund), 1909-1972. Themes in medieval Arabic literature / Gustave E. von Grunebaum; edited with a foreword by Dunning S. Wilson; preface by Speros Vryonis, Jr. London: Variorum Reprints, 1981

Woodhull, Winifred. Transfigurations of the Maghreb: Feminism, Decolonization, and Literatures. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.

Zeidan, Joseph T., 1944-. Arab women novelists: the formative years and beyond / Joseph T. Zeidan. (SUNY series in Middle Eastern Studies) Albany: State University of New York Press, c1995

Zwettler, Michael. The oral tradition of classical Arabic poetry: its character and implications / by Michael Zwettler. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1978

ERANOS YEARBOOKS

Corbin, H. Eliade, M. Jung, C.G. and others:

  • Man and Time: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. New York: Pantheon Books 1957. xx+414pp. Authors include also, M.Knoll, G.van der Leeuw, L. Massignon, E. Neumann, H. Plessner, A. Portmann. H.C. Peech, G. Quispel, and H. Wilhelm. Bollingen Series XXX edited by Joseph Campbell. Vol 3. Papers originally published in French or German in Eranos-Jahrbuch XVII, 1949, and XX, 1951.