Palestinian Children’s Literature
N.A. Mansour on Sonia Nimr We do not allow our characters rest. They are called upon to entertain us by darting to and
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Arabic
Al-Ḥarīrī’s Fifty Tales: The Tongues of God and Man
Bruce Fudge on al-Ḥarīrī translated by Michael Cooperson Impostures is ostensibly the translation of a twelfth-century Arabic text entitled “The Maqāmas.” Nobody knows
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Songs of a Sufi Martyr: Poetry and Heresy in Al-Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj
Nathaniel A. Miller on Al-Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj Al-Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj is as well-known for his unorthodox statements and execution as he is for his poetry.
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Of Fights and Fables: A Warrior Poet of Pre-Islamic Arabia
Kevin Blankinship Reviews War Songs: ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād War Songs: `Antarah Ibn Shaddad is the latest achievement of the Library of Arabic Literature
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Collective Enthusiasm and the Cautious Scholar: The Birmingham Qur’ān
The Case of the Discovery of the “Birmingham Qur’ān” In July 2015, the BBC released the news about the “‘Oldest’ Koran fragments found
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Before Europe: The Christian West in the Annals of Medieval Islam
Arafat Razzaque reviews Daniel König’s Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West: Tracing the Emergence of Medieval Europe In 1961, nearly two decades before
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DISPATCHES. Notes on First Visiting Morocco: A Reverie of Fes, March 2008 – By Ted Scheinman
It was dusk and we came to one of those little Fellini crossroads in Old Fes, where five passageways meet and no one
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