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  • ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: SELECTED WORKS OF A. J. ARBERRY
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    ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: SELECTED WORKS OF A. J. ARBERRY
    A. J. ARBERRY
    A. J. Arberry is one of Britain’s most distinguished and celebrated Orientalist scholars. This set contains five of Professor Arberry’s works: Scheherezade: Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (1953); The Seven Odes: The First Chapter in Arabic literature (1957); Classical Persian Literature (1958); The Romance of the Rubaiìyatì (1959); Oriental Essays: Portraits of Seven Sc...

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  • ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: THE SEVEN ODES (1957)
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    ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: THE SEVEN ODES (1957)
    A. J. ARBERRY
    These seven poems, translated by A. J. Arberry in 1957, are the most famous survivors of a vast mass of poetry produced in the Arabian Desert in the sixth century. Arberry’s introduction explains to the reader what was known about the poems and how they came to be preserved and distributed over time. The epilogue particularly interrogates the authenticity of the poems and track...

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  • ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: CLASSICAL PERSIAN LITERATURE (1958)
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    ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: CLASSICAL PERSIAN LITERATURE (1958)
    A. J. ARBERRY
    First published in 1958, this work by one of Britain’s most celebrated Orientalist scholars, tells the story of the rebirth of national literature in Persia after the fall of the Sᾱsᾱnian empire in the seventh century. It traces the course of this literature’s development and full maturity from the ninth century to the end of the fifteenth century and looks at a number of impor...

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  • ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: ORIENTAL ESSAYS (1960)
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    ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: ORIENTAL ESSAYS (1960)
    A. J. ARBERRY
    First published in 1960, this work describes the lives and labours of six great scholars - Simon Ockley, Sir William Jones, E. W. Lane, E. H. Palmer, E.G. Browne and R. A Nicholson. These men were devoted to building a bridge between the peoples and cultures of Europe and Asia. To these biographical essays, Arberry has added a short autobiography and an eloquent plea for the fu...

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  • ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: SCHEHEREZADE (1953)
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    ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: SCHEHEREZADE (1953)
    A. J. ARBERRY
    First published in 1953, this translation of part of the Arabian Nights by A. J. Arberry offers four famous stories in modern idiom: Aladdin, Judar, Aboukir and Abousir, and the Amorous Goldsmith. The introduction provides a brief analysis of earlier translations of the tales and explains their value as indicators of the society in which they were written. This work will be of ...

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  • ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: THE ROMANCE OF THE RUBÁIYÁT (1959)
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    ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: THE ROMANCE OF THE RUBÁIYÁT (1959)
    A. J. ARBERRY
    First published in 1959, this reprint of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát is accompanied by an introduction and notes by A J Arberry, one of Britain’s most distinguished Orientalist scholars. The Rubáiyát is a selection of poems written in Persian attributed to Omar Khayyám. The work will be of interest to those studying Middle Eastern Litera...

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  • ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: MORE TALES FROM THE MASNAVI (1963)
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    ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: MORE TALES FROM THE MASNAVI (1963)
    A. J. ARBERRY
    First published in 1963, this work puts into clear and rhythmical English one hundred stories and apologues of the Masnavi of Rumi. Composed over a period of many years during the thirteenth century, as a manual of instruction and initiation into spiritual life, the Masnavi has long been acclaimed the greatest mystical epic of Islam. The tales were designed to illustrate in hum...

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  • ASPECTS OF ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION
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    ASPECTS OF ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION
    A J ARBERRY
    Originally published in 1964, this volume gathers together extracts from many of Arberry’s best-known works and supplements them with a selection of previously unpublished translations. The material therefore presents a vivid picture of the richness and variety of Islamic civilization from its origins to the late twentieth century. ...

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  • TALES FROM THE MASNAVI
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    TALES FROM THE MASNAVI
    A. J ARBERRY
    The Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273), a massive poem of some 25,000 rhyming couplets, by common consent ranks among the world's greatest masterpieces of religious literature. The material which makes up the Masnavi is divisible into two different categories: theoretical discussion of the principal themes of Sufi mystical life and doctrine, and stories of fables intended...

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  • SUFISM
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    SUFISM
    A.J. ARBERRY
    Originally published in 1950.Thinkers such as Ghazali and Ibn `Arabi, poets such as Ibn al-Farid, Rumi, Hafiz and Jami were greatly inspired by the lives and sayings of the early Sufis. This book was the first short history of Sufism to be published in any language, illustrating the development of its doctrines with numerous quotations from literature. ...

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  • REVELATION AND REASON IN ISLAM
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    REVELATION AND REASON IN ISLAM
    A.J. ARBERRY
    The "Scholastic Problem" was the focus of much debate in Islam for some centuries before it became the chief crux of learned discussion in medieval Christianity. When originally published in 1957 this volume was the first survey of the subject to appear in English. It reviews the conflict within Islam between Revelation and Reason and examines the attempts made by theology, phi...

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  • THE HOLY KORAN
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    THE HOLY KORAN
    A.J. ARBERRY
    Despite being revered as the Holy Book by Muslims throughout the world, the Koran is the least known and least understood in the West of all the great religious books. In this volume A J Arberry examines this paradox and explains the qualities of the Koran which have made it acceptable to so many people. The selections have been chosen and arranged to illustrate the religious a...

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  • MOORISH POETRY
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    MOORISH POETRY
    A.J. ARBERRY
    Seven hundred and fifty years ago, this anthology of small masterpieces of renowned Moorish poets from Muslim Spain, North Africa and Sicily was compiled by Ibn Sa'id al-Andalusi, a native of Southern Spain. The text has been translated into rhymed English verses with an Introduction explaining the conventions of Arabic literature within which these Moorish poets worked. ...

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  • CLASSICAL PERSIAN LITERATURE
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    CLASSICAL PERSIAN LITERATURE
    A.J ARBERRY
    Reprint of a classic text, this volume gives an insight into the rebirth of national literature in the national language and traces the course of its development and full maturity from the beginning of the ninth to the end of the fifteenth century. ...

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  • DISCOURSES OF RUMI
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    DISCOURSES OF RUMI
    A.J ARBERRY
    Reprint of the 1961 classic study of the discourses of the founder of the order of Whirling Dervishes. ...

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  • FIFTY POEMS OF HAFIZ
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    FIFTY POEMS OF HAFIZ
    A.J ARBERRY
    Translation of a selection of poems from one of the world's greatest lyric poets. First published 1947. ...

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