The Qur'an

Alan Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• The Qur'an is the sacred book of Islam. For Muslims it is the word of God revealed in Arabic by the archangel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad, and the... Lees meer

Late Antiquity

• Hardcover | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• In the past four decades since the field of late antique studies began to gather real momentum, scholars have debated the place of early Islam within ... Lees meer

The Kashf Al-Mahjub

• Paperback | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• Al-Hujwīrī came from Ghazna, now in Afghanistan, then the capital of the mighty Ghaznavid Empire. He was a Sufi mystic who travelled widely in the Mid... Lees meer

Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion

W Barthold

• Paperback | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• Academician Barthold's famous work begins in the late 7th century with the Muslim invasions of what became Russian Central Asia and carries the histor... Lees meer

The 1820 Russian Survey of the Khanate of Shirvan

George A Bournoutian

• Hardcover | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• Shirvan, today mainly part of Azerbaijan, existed as an autonomous khanate, under Iranian influence, until 1820, when under pressure from Russia, the ... Lees meer

Al-Farabi's Philosophical Lexicon

Shukri Abed, Ilai Alon

• Hardcover | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• Al-Farabi (d. 950 AD), was perhaps the most original and influential of all Muslim philosophers of the Middle Ages. His intellectual activity spanned ... Lees meer

Medieval Islamic Swords and Swordmaking

Robert G Hoyland, Brian Gilmour

• Paperback | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• One of the problems pervading the study of medieval Islamic technology is the lack of surviving technical treatises. Tradition tended to be handed dow... Lees meer

Takhyil

Geert Jan Van Gelder, Marlé Hammond

• Hardcover | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• Takhyil is a term from Arabic poetics denoting the evocation of images. It has a broad spectrum of connotations throughout classical philosophical poe... Lees meer

Books and Bibliophiles

• Hardcover | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• The diverse studies presented in this volume recount the production, understanding and organisation of Muslim literature, both in the Muslim world and... Lees meer

Three Shadow Plays by Muhammad Ibn Dāniyāl

Paul Kahle

• Paperback | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• Very few examples of medieval Arabic drama have survived, a fact which constitutes a serious loss to our knowledge of Arab literary history. However, ... Lees meer

Islamic Reflections, Arabic Musings

Robert G Hoyland, Philip F Kennedy

• Hardcover | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• Fifteen essays on literature, linguistics, history and epigraphy. Contents include: Maysir-gambling in early Arabic poetry (N Jamil); the Qu'ran as a ... Lees meer

Abbasid Studies IV

• Hardcover | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• Soon after their successful revolution in 750 AD, the Abbāsids supplanted the Umayyad dynasty, built the new city of Baghdad, Iraq which became the ca... Lees meer

A Chronicle of the Reign of Shah 'Abbas Vol 1

Fazli Beg Khuzani Isfahani

• Hardcover | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• This substantial and largely unknown Persian chronicle of the reign of Shah 'Abbas I (1587-1629) exists in a unique manuscript, recently discovered in... Lees meer

The Vagaries of the Qasidah

James Montgomery

• Hardcover | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• A study of the tradition and practice of early Arabic poetry, this book provides an investigation of the multiple versions of early poems that exist i... Lees meer

Shiʿite Legal Theory

• Hardcover | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• Alongside the individual rules of God's law ( sharīʿa ), there has been a vibrant history of more philosophical or theoretical discussions in Islamic ... Lees meer

A Short History of the Gibb Memorial Trust and Its Trustees

• Hardcover | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• The Gibb Memorial Trust, founded at the start of the 20th century, comprised among its trustees some of the most celebrated and prominent orientalists... Lees meer

The Mathnawí of Jaláluʾddín Rúmí

Reynold a Nicholson

• Hardcover | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• A two volume set comprising the critical notes and commentary provided by Nicholson to his edition and translation of Rumi's great poem on Islamic mys... Lees meer

A Chronicle of the Reign of Shah 'Abbas Two Vol Set

Fazli Beg Khuzani Isfahani

• CD | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• This substantial and largely unknown Persian chronicle of the reign of Shah 'Abbas I (1587-1629) exists in a unique manuscript, recently discovered in... Lees meer

A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume V

E J W Gibb

• Paperback | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• The History of Ottoman Poetry , first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.J.W. Gibb's devotion to Ottoman T... Lees meer

A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume IV

E J W Gibb

• Paperback | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• The History of Ottoman Poetry , first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.J.W. Gibb's devotion to Ottoman T... Lees meer

The Saljuqnama of Zahir Al-Din Nishapuri

Zahir Al-Din Nihapuri

• Hardcover | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• The Saljuqnama is a historical work written around AD 1188 for Tughril III, the last of the Saljuq dynasty to rule in Iran. Zahir al-Din Nishapuri hop... Lees meer

A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume II

E J W Gibb

• Paperback | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• The History of Ottoman Poetry , first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.J.W. Gibb's devotion to Ottoman T... Lees meer

The Mawaqif and Mukhatabat

A J Arberry

• Hardcover | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• The Gibb Memorial Trust was founded in 1902 in memory of Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, a scholar who devoted his life to researching the history, literat... Lees meer

The Jaysh Al-Tawshīḥ Of Lisān Al-Dīn Ibn Al-Khaṭīb

Alan Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Gibb Memorial Trust
• The Jaysh al-tawshih is second only to the Uddat al- Jalis of Ibn Bishri (published in this series in 1992) as a source of Andalusian Arabic muwashsha... Lees meer