 | A Literary History of Persia (Classics of Persian Literature, 4) by Edward Granville Browne
Buy new: £195.08 / Used from: £194.90 The finest history of Persian literature in English.
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 | A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold A. Nicholson
Buy new: £25.08 / Used from: £31.86 A useful survey.
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 | Making the Great Book of Songs: Compilation and the Author's Craft in Abu l-Faraj al-Isbahani's "Kitab al-aghani" (Studies in Arabic & Middle Eastern Literatures) by Hilary Kilpatrick
Buy new: £85.00 / Used from: £118.35 An academic study of the work described by Ibn Khaldun as comprising "all that the [Arabs] had achieved in the past of excellence in every kind of poetry, history, music, et cetera."
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 | Fifty Poems of Hafiz by A.J Arberry
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 | Selected Poems from Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi (Classics of Persian Literature)
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 | Islamic Poetry (Cambridge University Press library editions) by Nicholson
Buy used from: £69.95 This excellent book is on the poetry of al-Ma'arri. Contains an introductory essay, translations of selected poems, commentary, and the Arabic originals.
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| The Ordinances of Government: Al-Ahkam As-Sultaniyyah W'at Wilayat Al Dinniyya (Great Books of Islamic Civilization) by Al-Mawardi
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| The Poems of Al-Mutanabbi by al-Mutanabbi
Buy new: £35.00 These faithful, scholarly translations, complete with facing Arabic texts, are an excellent aide for students of al-Mutanabbi. I also recommend Arberry's 'Arabic Poetry: A Primer for Students'.
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 | A Millennium of Classical Persian Poetry: A Guide to the Reading and Understanding of Persian Poetry from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century by Wheeler M. Thackston
Buy new: £24.23 / Used from: £15.88 An anthology of Persian poetry - in Persian. Contains brief notes on the authors.
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 | The Hafez Poems of Gertrude Bell: With the Original Persian on the Facing Page (Classics of Persian Literature) by Shirazi Hafiz
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 | The Wine Song in Classical Arabic Poetry: Abú Nuwás and the Literary Tradition: Abu Nuwas and the Literary Tradition (Oxford Oriental Monographs) by Philip F. Kennedy
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 | The Assemblies of Al-Hariri V2: Containing the Last Twenty-Four Assemblies by F. Steingass
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| Alberuni's India by Al-Biruni
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| Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-1354 by Ibn Battutah
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 | The Incoherence of the Philosophers (Islamic translation) by AlGhazali
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| Averroes? Tahafut Al-Tahafut (The Incoherence of the Incoherence). 2 volumes. by ed. Averroes. Simon Van der Bergh
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 | The Canon of Medicine by Avicenna
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 | History of Al-Tabari: v.1: Vol 1 (SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies) by Abu Ja'far Muhammad Bin Jarir Al-Tabari
Buy new: £20.94 / Used from: £24.05 This is the first volume of a 29-vol. collaborative translation of at-Tabari's monumental Tarikhu r-Rusul wa l-Muluk.
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 | Tales from the Gulistan: The Rose Garden of Sheik Sa'di of Shiraz by Sheikh Muslih-uddin Sa'di Shirazi
Buy new: £19.95 / Used from: £14.44 The most famous, and arguably the finest, of all Persian prose works, as translated by the famous (and infanous) 19th-century English adventurer, orientalist, soldier, poet, linguist and pornographer.
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| The Muqaddimah. (An introduction to history.) Translated ... by Franz Rosenthal. Abridged and edited by N. J. Dawood by N. J Dawood
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| The Ring of the Dove by Ibn Hazm
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| Kalila Wa Dimna: Fables from a Fourteenth Century Arabic Manuscript by Esin Atil
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| The "Spiritual physick" of Rhazes (Wisdom of the East series) by Al- Razi
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 | Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions) by Abolqasem Ferdowsi
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 | The Book of Government or Rules for Kings: The Siyar al Muluk or Siyasat-nama of Nizam al-Mulk by Hubert Darke
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