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Book SynopsisThe Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography,Trade Review"Ibn Khaldun, the great 14th-century Arab scholar, is the most authoritative and most beguiling of Arabic polymaths... His learning and ideas have an astonishingly modern relevance. His encyclopaedic work is a wonderfully readable mixture of history, sociology, ethnography, economics, science, art, literature, cookery, and medicine."--Iain Finlayson, Times "[The] most remarkable book written during the entire Middle Ages, one of the great intellectual achievements of all time."--Virginia Quarterly Review From review of Princeton's original edition: "[N. J. Dawood] has, by skillful abridgement and deft but unobtrusive editing, produced an attractive and manageable volume, which should make the essential ideas of Ibn Khaldun accessible to a wide circle of readers."--Times Literary Supplement From review of Princeton's original edition: "Undoubtedly the greatest work of its kind that has ever been created by any mind in any time or place ... the most comprehensive and illuminating analysis of how human affairs work that has been made anywhere."--Arnold J. Toynbee, Observer

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Book SynopsisSufism through the eyes of a legal scholarIn The Requirements of the Sufi Path, the renowned North African historian and jurist Ibn Khaldun applies his analytical powers to Sufism, which he deems a bona fide form of Islamic piety. Ibn Khaldun is widely known for his groundbreaking work as a sociologist and historian, in particular for the Muqaddimah, the introduction to his massive universal history. In The Requirements of the Sufi Path, he writes from the perspective of an Islamic jurist and legal scholar. He characterizes Sufism and the stages along the Sufi path and takes up the the question of the need for a guide along that path. In doing so, he relies on the works of influential Sufi scholars, including al-Qushayri, al-Ghazali, and Ibn al-Kha?ib. Even as Ibn Khaldun warns of the extremes to which some Sufis goincluding practicing magichis work is essentially a legal opinion, a fatwa, asserting the inherent validity of the Sufi path.

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Book Synopsis.Trade ReviewA History of the Middle East is a clear, well-balanced book introducing the Middle East by a well-experienced scholar. -Erik Goldstein, Boston UniversityA History of the Middle East is a fine, ambitious effort at covering 1,400+ years of Middle East political, religious, and cultural history in one engaging, accessible volume. -Andrew Wender, University of VictoriaTable of ContentsCONTENTS List of Maps Spotlight Boxes Preface Note on the Text About the Author 1 INTRODUCTION Notes 2 THE RISE OF ISLAM The International Setting Pre-Islamic Arabia Life of the Prophet Muhammad Primary Sources Thabit: The Death of the Knight Rabia, Called Boy Longlocks Surah Al-Fatiha (The Opening) Surah LXXV, The Resurrection Key Terms Notes 3 RASHIDUN Succession and Ridda War Islamic Conquests Fitna Primary Sources The Battle of Ajnadin (or Ajnadain) Tabarîi: '"The Death of 'Uthman,"' ,"' from Tthe History of Prophets and Kings Key Terms Notes 4 ARAB KINGDOM Sufyanids Marwanids I Marwanids II Primary Sources The Death of al-Husayn ibn Ali Hasan al-Basri: Letter to Umar II Key Terms Notes 5 ISLAMIC EMPIRE Revolution and Consolidation Of Golden Primes and Civil War Breakdown Primary Sources Harun al-Rashid and the Succession Arrangement Key Terms Notes 6 FRAGMENTATION Buyids Fatimids Islamic Spain Primary Sources The Cities of Egypt: Alexandria and al-Fustat Abd al-Rahman III of al-Andalus Key Terms Notes 7 FROM EAST AND WEST The Seljuks The Mongols The Crusades Primary Sources Selections from The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun' Ibn al-Athir: from The Great History Robert the Monk's Account of Pope Urban II's Call to Crusade Ibn al-Athir, X, 185--190, 193--195 "Imad al-Din al-Asfahani relays Salah al-Din." Key Terms Notes 8 IN THE WAKE OF THE MONGOLS The Mamluks The Ottomans The Safavids Primary Sources Kritovoulos: from Tthe History of Mehmed Position and Orders Given the Generals Letters from Selim and Ismail Key Terms Notes 9 RISE, RESISTANCE, RETREAT, AND REFORM The Age of Sulayman the Magnificent European Pressure Ottoman Reform Movement Primary Sources Poem written by Sulayman the Magnificent to his wife, Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana) The Gülhane Proclamation, (1839) Jamal al-Din al-Afghani,", "Commentary on the Commentator" Key Terms Notes 10 INFLECTION POINT The Hamidian Era and the Young Turks World War I in the Middle East Postwar Agreements and Mandate System Primary Sources Negib Azoury: Program of the League of the Arab Fatherland Excerpts from the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence, (July 14, 1915--January. 25, 1916) The Sykes-Picot Agreement, 1916 The Balfour Declaration, 1917 British Declaration to Seven Arab Spokesmen Key Terms Notes 11 THE SHAPING OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST Cold Wars Arab--Israeli Conflict 1979 and Iits Aftermath Primary Sources United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 Speech by President Nasser on Nationalization of the Suez Canal Remarks by Golda Meir to President Sadat in the Knesset, November 21, 1977 Excerpts from speech by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to the Israeli Knesset, November 20, 1977. Camp David Accords: The Framework for Peace in the Middle East Annual State of the Union Message (1980) (the Carter Doctrine), 1980 "Palestinians, America and the U.N." Op-ed in the New York Times, January. 20, 2011, bBy Hanan Ashrawi Key Terms Notes 12 MIDDLE EAST AGONISTES 9/11 The 2003 Invasion of Iraq The Arab Spring Primary Sources Excerpt from President George W. Bush's State of the Union Speech, January 2002 (excerpt) Statement by President Trump on Jerusalem, December 2017 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Reacts to Trump's Announcement Excerpts from Speech by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the Syrian Parliament Addressing the Mounting Protests, March 30, 2011 Shirin Ebadi, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Nobel Lecture, December. 10, 2003. Key Terms Notes For Further Reading Glossary Photo Credits Index

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Book SynopsisChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2023This volume brings together 25 defining texts in global history. These pieces cover approaches to the subject from antiquity to the present century and, taken together, show the development of the discipline, providing a solid historiographical, theoretical and methodological overview that will be invaluable for students. The collection gives a unique sense of how, at different times, in different cultural circumstances, students of the past have approached the problems of encompassing the world in a single narrative or theory. This is a reader with an implicit story to unfold. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto tracks how a global understanding of history originated in prophetic writings, how the Renaissance discovery of the world multiplied the opportunities for historians to think about history globally, how scientific investigations of change came to exert influence and inspire new thinking among global historians, how culture wars ensued between advoTrade ReviewIn spirit, global history is an age-old endeavour. At the same time, each manifestation is highly specific to its moment, with its own particular set of constraints and possibilities. Prof. Fernández-Armesto shows this with aplomb for the Western tradition, not just through the essays, which are judiciously chosen, but also through his introductory remarks, which are written with flare and a telling eye, highlighting the import of their subject for both students and scholars. * Gagandeep S. Sood, Associate Professor, International History Department, London School of Economics, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Prophecy and Providentialism 1. The Book of Daniel, Chapters 7-12 2. Paulus Orosius, Seven Books Against the Pagans, Dedication, From Book I, Section 1 and from Books II (Section 1), V (Sections 1-2) and VII (Sections 1-3) 3. M. Reeves, Joachim of Fiore and the Prophetic Future, From Chapter 1, “Joachim and the Meaning of History” 4. From Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History Part II: From Providence to Progress 5. Johann Gottfried Herder, Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man, Book XV, Chapters 1-5 6. Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View, On History [1784] 7. G.W.F. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, “The Course of the World’s History,” vol. iii, sections 60-99. 8. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party [1848], Chapter 1 9. Leopold von Ranke, Universal History: The Oldest Historical Group of Nations and the Greeks [1884], Preface Part III: The Scientific Temptation 10. Herbert Spencer, “Progress: Its Law and Consequences” [1886], Chapter 1 11. Christopher Dawson, The Age of the Gods [1928], “Introduction” 12. David Christian, “World History in Context” [2003] 13. Richard Lewontin and Joseph Fraccia, “Does Culture Evolve?” [1994] 14. Felipe Fernández-Armesto, “How to be Human: A Historical Approach” [2010] 15. Daniel Lord Smail, “Neuroscience and the Dialectics of History” [2012] Part IV: Comparative and Contextual Approaches 16. Ian G. Simmons, ‘“To Civility and Man´s Use”: History, Culture, and Nature’ [1998] 17. Jared M.Diamond, “Colonization Cycles in Man and Beast” [1977] 18. Kenneth Pomeranz, “Social History and World History from Daily Life to Patterns of Change” [2007] 19. Bruce Mazlish, “Comparing Global History to World History” [1998] Part V: The Eurocentrism Controversies 20. Arnold J. Toynbee, “My View of History” [1948] 21. Samuel Huntington,. “The Clash of Civilizations” [1993] 22. J.C. van Leur, Indonesian Trade and Society: Essays in Asian Social and Economic History [1967], Chapter 1: “On Methodology and Theory” 23. W.H. McNeill, “A Defence of World History” [1982] Envoi: The New Narratives 24. David Christian, “The Return of Universal History” [2010] 25. David Northrup, “Globalization and the Great Convergence: Rethinking World History in the Long Term” [2008]

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Book SynopsisThis timely anthology brings together for the first time the most important ancient, medieval, Enlightenment, and modern scholarship for a complete anthropological evaluation of the relationship between culture and climate change. Brings together for the first time the most important classical works and contemporary scholarship for a complete historical anthropological evaluation of the relationship between culture and climate change Covers the historic and prehistoric records of human impact from and response to prior periods of climate change, including the impact and response to climate change at the local level Discusses the impact on global debates about climate change from North-South post-colonial histories and the social dimensions of the science of climate change. Includes coverage of topics such as environmental determinism, climatic events as social catalysts, climatic disasters and societal collapse, and ethno-meteorology Trade ReviewI believe that Dove s book would serve as an excellent supplementary textbook for subjects on the anthropology of climate change because of its historical orientation. (The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 6 April 2015) strengthened by Dove s excellent introduction, in which he outlines key themes and situates each work Dove has assembled a collection that demonstrates how anthropology can enhance our understanding of the relationship between climate and society. (Anthem EnviroExperts Review, 1 October 2014)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments to Sources viii About the Editor x Preface xi Acknowledgments xiv Introduction: The Anthropology of Climate Change Six Millennia of Study of the Relationship between Climate and Society 1 Michael R. Dove Part I Continuities 37 Climate Theory 1 Airs, Waters, Places 41 Hippocrates 2 On the Laws in Their Relation to the Nature of the Climate 47 Charles de Secondat Montesquieu Beyond the Greco-Roman Tradition 3 The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History 55 Ibn Khaldûn 4 The Jungle and the Aroma of Meats: An Ecological Theme in Hindu Medicine 67 Francis Zimmermann Ethno-climatology 5 Concerning Weather Signs 83 Theophrastus 6 Gruff Boreas, Deadly Calms: A Medical Perspective on Winds and the Victorians 87 Vladimir Jankoviæ Part II Societal and Environmental Change 103 Environmental Determinism 7 Nature, Rise, and Spread of Civilization 107 Friedrich Ratzel 8 Environment and Culture in the Amazon Basin: An Appraisal of the Theory of Environmental Determinism 115 Betty J. Meggers Climate Change and Societal Collapse 9 Management for Extinction in Norse Greenland 131 Thomas H. McGovern 10 What Drives Societal Collapse? 151 Harvey Weiss and Raymond Bradley Climatic Events as Social Crucibles 11 Natural Disaster and Political Crisis in a Polynesian Society: An Exploration of Operational Research 157 James Spillius 12 Drought as a “Revelatory Crisis”: An Exploration of Shifting Entitlements and Hierarchies in the Kalahari, Botswana 168 Jacqueline S. Solway Part III Vulnerability and Control 187 Culture and Control of Climate 13 Rain-Shrines of the Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia 191 Elizabeth Colson 14 El Niño, Early Peruvian Civilization, and Human Agency: Some Thoughts from the Lurin Valley 201 Richard L. Burger Climatic Disasters and Social Marginalization 15 Katrina: The Disaster and its Doubles 217 Nancy Scheper-Hughes 16 “Nature”, “Culture” and Disasters: Floods and Gender in Bangladesh 223 Rosalind Shaw Part IV Knowledge and its Circulation 235 Emic Views of Climatic Perturbation/Disaster 17 Typhoons on Yap 239 David M. Schneider 18 The Politics of Place: Inhabiting and Defending Glacier Hazard Zones in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca 247 Mark Carey Co-production of Knowledge in Climatic and Social Histories 19 Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories in the Saint Elias Mountains 261 Julie Cruikshank 20 The Making and Unmaking of Rains and Reigns 276 Todd Sanders “Friction” in the Global Circulation of Climate Knowledge 21 Transnational Locals: Brazilian Experiences of the Climate Regime 301 Myanna Lahsen 22 Channeling Globality: The 1997–98 El Niño Climate Event in Peru 315 Kenneth Broad and Ben Orlove Index 335

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Book SynopsisThis timely anthology brings together for the first time the most important ancient, medieval, Enlightenment, and modern scholarship for a complete anthropological evaluation of the relationship between culture and climate change. Brings together for the first time the most important classical works and contemporary scholarship for a complete historical anthropological evaluation of the relationship between culture and climate change Covers the historic and prehistoric records of human impact from and response to prior periods of climate change, including the impact and response to climate change at the local level Discusses the impact on global debates about climate change from North-South post-colonial histories and the social dimensions of the science of climate change. Includes coverage of topics such as environmental determinism, climatic events as social catalysts, climatic disasters and societal collapse, and ethno-meteorology Trade Review"...a timely contribution to the discourse in anthropology for understanding the various impacts of global climate change from multiple perspectives and contexts...the pairing of relevant and related works under specific thematic areas is useful for class reading assignments and encouraging focused comparative debates." - Sandra Moore, for Anthropology Book Forum, Anthropology News“I believe that Dove’s book would serve as an excellent supplementary textbook for subjects on the anthropology of climate change because of its historical orientation.” (The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 6 April 2015) “…strengthened by Dove’s excellent introduction, in which he outlines key themes and situates each work Dove has assembled a collection that demonstrates how anthropology can enhance our understanding of the relationship between climate and society.’ (Anthem EnviroExperts Review, 1 October 2014) Table of ContentsAcknowledgments to Sources viii About the Editor x Preface xi Acknowledgments xiv Introduction: The Anthropology of Climate Change Six Millennia of Study of the Relationship between Climate and Society 1Michael R. Dove Part I Continuities 37Climate Theory 1 Airs, Waters, Places 41Hippocrates 2 On the Laws in Their Relation to the Nature of the Climate 47Charles de Secondat Montesquieu Beyond the Greco-Roman Tradition 3 The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History 55Ibn Khaldûn 4 The Jungle and the Aroma of Meats: An Ecological Theme in Hindu Medicine 67Francis Zimmermann Ethno-climatology Copyrighted Material 5 Concerning Weather Signs 83Theophrastus 6 Gruff Boreas, Deadly Calms: A Medical Perspective on Winds and the Victorians 87Vladimir Jankoviæ Part II Societal and Environmental Change 103Environmental Determinism 7 Nature, Rise, and Spread of Civilization 107Friedrich Ratzel 8 Environment and Culture in the Amazon Basin: An Appraisal of the Theory of Environmental Determinism 115Betty J. Meggers Climate Change and Societal Collapse 9 Management for Extinction in Norse Greenland 131Thomas H. McGovern 10 What Drives Societal Collapse? 151Harvey Weiss and Raymond Bradley Climatic Events as Social Crucibles 11 Natural Disaster and Political Crisis in a Polynesian Society: An Exploration of Operational Research 157James Spillius 12 Drought as a “Revelatory Crisis”: An Exploration of Shifting Entitlements and Hierarchies in the Kalahari, Botswana 168Jacqueline S. Solway Part III Vulnerability and Control 187Culture and Control of Climate 13 Rain-Shrines of the Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia 191Elizabeth Colson 14 El Niño, Early Peruvian Civilization, and Human Agency: Some Thoughts from the Lurin Valley 201Richard L. Burger Climatic Disasters and Social Marginalization 15 Katrina: The Disaster and its Doubles 217Nancy Scheper-Hughes 16 “Nature”, “Culture” and Disasters: Floods and Gender in Bangladesh 223Rosalind Shaw Part IV Knowledge and its Circulation 235Emic Views of Climatic Perturbation/Disaster 17 Typhoons on Yap 239David M. Schneider 18 The Politics of Place: Inhabiting and Defending Glacier Hazard Zones in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca 247Mark Carey Co-production of Knowledge in Climatic and Social Histories 19 Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories in the Saint Elias Mountains 261Julie Cruikshank 20 The Making and Unmaking of Rains and Reigns 276Todd Sanders “Friction” in the Global Circulation of Climate Knowledge 21 Transnational Locals: Brazilian Experiences of the Climate Regime 301Myanna Lahsen 22 Channeling Globality: The 1997–98 El Niño Climate Event in Peru 315Kenneth Broad and Ben Orlove Index 335

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Book SynopsisAn anthology of the written and oral literatures of the Maghreb, the region of North Africa that spans the modern nation states of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania, and includes a section on the influential Arabo-Berber and Jewish literary culture of Al-Andalus, which flourished in Spain between the ninth and fifteenth centuries.Trade Review"This book is the most important contribution to world literature for this year... Every page shocks with different energy." -- Grace Cavalieri Washington Independent Rev "With ingenious translations and informative commentaries, Joris and Tengour . . make palpable that this region is a wellspring of the culture we value in the West. In so doing, they restore to us missing parts of the 'cradle' of our civilization." -- Charles Bernstein Artforum "A 'must own' item." Silliman's Blog "Their book comes at a time when there are a slew of English titles published on the Arab world, but unlike the majority of them, this volume actually encourages cultural appreciation. I could wax rhapsodic about these poems for months." -- Alexis Coe SF WeeklyTable of ContentsThanks and Acknowledgments Introduction A Book of Multiple Beginnings Prologue The First Human Beings, Their Sons and Amazon Daughters Hanno the Navigator (Carthage, c. sixth century B.C.E.) from The Periplos of Hanno Callimachus (Cyrene, 310-c. 240 B.C.E.) Thirteen Epigrammatic Poems Mago (Carthage, pre-second century B.C.E.) from De Agricultura Lucius Apuleius (Madaurus, now M'Daourouch, c. 123-c. 180 C.E.) from The Golden Ass, or Metamorphoses Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus (Carthage, c. 160-c. 220 C.E.) from De Pallio (The Cloak) from Scorpiace (The Scorpion) Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus (Carthage, early third century-258 C.E.) from Epistle to Donatus Lucius Lactantius (Cirta?, c. 240-Trier?, c. 320 C.E.) from De Ave Phoenice Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis (Saint Augustine) (Thagaste, 354-Hippo, 430 C.E.) from Confessions from De Doctrina Christiana from De fide rerum invisibilium from Psalmus contra partem Donati Blossius Aemilius Dracontius (Carthage, c. 455-c. 505 C.E.) The Chariot of Venus De Mensibus (Months) The Origin of Roses Luxorius (Carthage, sixth century C.E.) [They say, that when the fierce bear gives birth ...] Premature Chariot First Diwan A Book of In-Betweens: Al-Andalus, Sicily, the Maghreb Prologue Anonymous Muwashshaha Some Kharjas Ibn Hani al-Andalusi (Seville, c. 934-Barca, Libya, 973) Al-Jilnar Extinction Is the Truth ... Ibn Darradj al-Qastalli (958-1030) from Ode in Praise of Khairan al-'Amiri, Emir of Almeria from Ode in Praise of al-Mansur al-'Amiri, Emir of Cordoba Abu Amir Ibn Shuhayd (Cordoba, 992-1035) from Qasida (I) Cordoba from Qasida (II) "As he got his fill of delirious wine" Gravestone Qasida Yusuf ibn Harun al-Ramadi (d. c. 1022) Hugging Letters and Beauty Spots Silver Breast Gold Nails The Swallow O Rose ... Yosef ibn Abitur (mid-tenth century-c. 1012) The "Who?" of Ibn Abitur of Cordoba Hafsa bint Hamdun (Wadi al-Hijara, now Guadalajara, tenth century) Four Poems Samuel Ha-Levi ibn Nagrella, called ha-Nagid, "the Prince" (Merida, 993-Granada, 1055) Three Love Poems War Poem Ibn Hazm (Cordoba, 994-Niebla, 1064) My Heart from The Neck-Ring of the Dove FROM "AUTHOR'S PREFACE" OF FALLING IN LOVE WHILE ASLEEP Wallada bint al-Mustakfi (Cordoba, 994-1091) Six Poems Ibn Rashiq (Masila, Algeria, c. 1-Mazara, Sicily, c. 1064) from Lament over the Fall of the City of Kairouan Ibn Zaydun (Cordoba, 1003-1071) Fragments from the Qasida in the Rhyme of Nun Written from al-Zahra' Salomon ibn Gabirol (Malaga, c. 1020-Valencia, c. 1058) The 16-Year-Old Poet from The Crown of Kingdom Al Mu'tamid ibn Abbad (Seville, 1040-Aghmat, 1095) To Abu Bakr ibn 'Ammar Going to Silves To Rumaykiyya Ibn Hamdis (Noto, Sicily, 1056-Majorca, 1133) He Said, Remembering Sicily and His Home, Syracuse Ibn Labbana (Benissa, mid-eleventh century-Majorca, 1113) Al-Mu'tamid and His Family Go into Exile Two Muwashshahat Moses ibn Ezra (Granada, c. 1058-c. 1135) Drinking Song Song Al-A'ma al-Tutili (b. Tudela, c. late eleventh century-d. 1126) Water-Fire Muwashshaha Ibn Khafadja (Alcita, province of Valencia, 1058-1138) The River Yehuda Halevi, the Cantor of Zion (Toledo, 1075-Cairo, 1141) from Yehuda Halevi's Songs to Zion The Garden Ibn Quzman (Cordoba, 1078-1160) [A muwashshaha] The Crow Abraham ibn Ezra (1089-1164) "I have a garment" Abu Madyan Shu'ayb (Sidi Boumedienne) (Cantillana, 1126-Tlemcen, 1198) You Will Be Served in Your Glass Hafsa bint al-Hajj Arrakuniyya (Granada, 1135-Marrakech, 1190) Eight Poems Ibn Arabi, al-Sheikh al-Akhbar (Murcia, 1165-Damascus, 1240) "I believe in the religion of love" "O my two friends" The Wisdom of Reality in the Words of Isaac Abi Sharif al-Rundi (Seville, 1204-Ceuta, 1285) Nuniyya Ibn Said al-Maghribi (Alcala la Real, 1213-Tunis, 1274) The Battle Black Horse with White Chest The Wind Abu al-Hassan al-Shushtari (Guadix, 1213-Damietta, 1269) My Art But You Are in the Najd Desire Drives the Camels Abraham Abulafia (Saragossa, 1240-Comino, c. 1291) How He Went as Messiah in the Name of Angel Raziel to Confront the Pope from The Book of the Letter from Life of the World to Come: Circles Ibn Zamrak (Granada, 1333-1393) The Alhambra Inscription The Oral Tradition I Prologue Kabyle Origin Tale: "The World Tree and the Image of the Universe" from Sirhat Banu Hilal (I) Sultan Hassan el Hilali Bou Ali, the Taciturn Over Whom to Weep Who Is the Best Hilali Horseman? Chiha's Advice Bouzid on Reconnaissance in the Maghreb Four Tamachek' Fables The Greyhound and the Bone The Lion, the Panther, the Tazourit, and the Jackal The Billy Goat and the Wild Boar The Woman and the Lion Kabylian Song on the Expedition of 1856 Tuareg Proverbs from the Ahaggar Second Diwan Al Adab: The Invention of Prose Prologue Ibn Sharaf al-Qayrawani (Kairouan, c. 1-Seville, 1067) On Some Andalusian Poets On Poetic Criticism Ibn Rashiq al-Qayrawani (also al-Masili) (Masila, Algeria, c. 1-Mazara, Sicily, 1064) from Al-'Umda: "On making poetry and stimulating inspiration" Al-Bakri (Huelva, 1014-Cordoba, 1094) from Kitab al-Masalik wa-'al-Mamalik (Book of Routes and Realms) Abu Hamid al-Gharnati (Granada, 1080-Damascus, 1169) from Tuhfat al-Albab (Gift of the Spirit) DESCRIPTION OF THE LIGHTHOUSE OF ALEXANDRIA CHAMBER MADE FOR SOLOMON BY THE JINNS Ibn Baja (Avempace) (Saragossa, 1085-Fez, 1138) from The Governance of the Solitary Al-Idrisi (Ceuta, 1099-Sicily, c. 1166) from Al-Kitab al-Rujari (Roger's Book) Ibn Tufayl (Cadiz, c. 1105-Marrakech, 1185) from Hayy ibn Yaqzan, a Philosophical Tale Musa ibn Maimon, called Maimonides (Cordoba, 1138-Fostat, 1204) from The Guide for the Perplexed Ibn Jubayr (Valencia, 1145-Egypt, 1217) from The Travels of Ibn Jubayr: Sicily Ahmad al-Tifashi (Tiffech, Algeria, 1184-Cairo, 1253) from The Delight of Hearts Ibn Battuta (Tangier, 1304-Marrakech, 1369) from Rihla: Concerning Travels in the Maghreb Ibn Khaldun (Tunis, 1332-Cairo, 1406) from The Muqaddimah, an Introduction to History "THE CRAFT OF POETRY AND THE WAY OF LEARNING IT" "POETRY AND PROSE WORK WITH WORDS, AND NOT WITH IDEAS" Sheikh Nefzaoui (b. Nefzaoua, southern Tunisia-d. c. 1434) from The Perfumed Garden THE NAMES GIVEN TO MAN'S SEXUAL ORGANS THE NAMES GIVEN TO WOMAN'S SEXUAL ORGANS Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi (Leo Africanus) (Granada, c. 1488-1554) from Travel Diaries WHY THIS PART OF THE WORLD WAS NAMED AFRICA THE MANNER AND CUSTOMS OF THE ARABS INHABITING AFRICA ON FEZ A Book of Mystics Prologue Abu Madyan Shu'ayb (Sidi Boumedienne) (Cantillana, 1126-Tlemcen, 1198) The Qasida in Ra The Qasida in Mim Abdeslam ibn Mashish Alami (Beni Aross region, near Tangier, 1163-1228) As-Salatal-Mashishiyah (The Salutation of Ibn Mashish) Ibn Arabi, al-Sheikh al-Akhbar (Murcia, 1165-Damascus, 1240) Our Loved Ones Lords of Love "Gentle now, doves" "Who is here for a braveheart" Abu al-Hassan al-Shushtari (Guadix, 1213-Damietta, 1269) Layla Othman Ibn Yahya el Sherki (Sidi Bahlul Sherki) (Tetouan region, seventeenth century) from Al-Fiyachiya Ahmed Ibn 'Ajiba (Tetouan region, 1747-1809) Qasida Maxims Mystical Poetry from Djurdjura Tell Me, You Saints from Everywhere Those Who Remember Know It What Dwelling Did I Raise in Ayt-Idjer Bird, Soar Up into the Sky Two Shawia Amulets Amulet against Poison and Poisonous Animals Amulet to "Unknot" Headaches and Neuralgias Third Diwan The Long Sleep and the Slow Awakening Prologue Sidi Abderrahman el Mejdub (Tit Mlil, early sixteenth century-Merdacha, Jebel Aouf, 1568) Some Quatrains Sidi Lakhdar Ben Khlouf (Mostaganem region, sixteenth-seventeenth century) from The Honeycomb Abdelaziz al-Maghraoui (Tafilalet, 1533-1593/1605) from A Masbah az-Zin (O Beautiful Lamp!) from Peace Be upon You O Shining Pearl! Mawlay Zidan Abu Maali (d. Marrakech, 1627) "I passed ..." Al-Maqqari (Tlemcen, c. 1591-Cairo, 1632) On Those Andalusians Who Traveled to the East Al-Yusi (Middle Atlas, 1631-1691) from Al-Muharat [TWO SEASONS] [THE CITY AND THE COUNTRY] Ahmed Ben Triki (Ben Zengli) (Tlemcen, c. 1650-c. 1750) from Tal Nahbi (My Pain Endures ...) from Sha'lat Niran Fi Kbadi (Burned to the Depths of My Soul!) Sid al Hadj Aissa (Tlemcen, 1668--Laghouat, 1737) A Borni Falcon Song A Turkli Falcon Song Al-Hani Ben Guenoun (1761-1864) from Ya Dhalma (O Unfair Lady!) Sidi Mohammed Ben Msaieb (d. Tlemcen, 1768) from O Pigeon Messenger! Mohammed ben Sliman (d. Fez, 1792) The Storm Boumediene Ben Sahla (Tlemcen, late eighteenth-early nineteenth century) from Wahd al-Ghazal Rit al-Youm (I Saw a Gazelle Today ...) Mostefa Ben Brahim (Safa) (Boudjebha, Sidi Bel Abbes province, 1800-1867) Saddle Up, O Warrior! Mohammed Belkheir (El Bayadh, south of Oran, 1835-1905) Melha! Moroccan Exile Exiled at Calvi, Corsica Si Mohand (Icheraiouen, At Yirraten, c. 1840-Lhammam-Michelet, 1906) Three Poems from Si Mohand's Journey from Maison-Carree to Michelet Mohamed ibn Seghir Benguitoun (Sidi Khaled, c. 1843-1907) from Hiziya Sheikh Smati (Ouled Djellal, near Biskra, 1862-1917) Mount Kerdada Mohamed Ben Sghir (Tlemcen, late nineteenth century) Lafjar (Dawn) Ya'l-Warchan (O Dove) Abdallah Ibn Keriou (Laghouat, 1869-1921) "Oh you who worry about the state of my heart" Hadda (Dra Valley, southern Morocco, late twentieth century) The Poem of the Candle A Book of Writing Prologue Archaic Kufic Script Polychrome Maghrebian Script Maghrebian Script Maghrebian Cursive Script Andalusian Cursive Script Al-Qandusi A Bismillah The Word Paradise Maghrebian Script: The Two Letters Lam-Alif Maghrebian Mujawhar Script Fourth Diwan Resistance and Road to Independence Prologue Emir Abd El Kader (Mascara, 1808-Damascus, 1883) My Spouse Worries I Am Love The Secrets of the Lam-Alif Mohammed Ben Brahim Assarraj (Marrakech, 1897-1955) Poem I Poem II Tahar Haddad (Tunis, 1899-1935) from Muslim Women in Law and Society Jean El Mouhoub Amrouche (Ighil Ali, 1906-Paris, 1962) Adoration of the Palm Trees Abu al-Qasim al-Shabi (Tozeur, 1909-Tunis, 1934) Life's Will Mouloud Feraoun (Tizi Hibel, 1913-Algiers, 1962) from Journal, 1955-1962 Emmanuel Robles (Oran, 1914-Boulogne-Billancourt, 1995) from Mirror Suite Edmond Amram El-Maleh (Safi, 1917-Rabat, 2010) from Taksiat Mouloud Mammeri (Taourirt Mimoune, Kabylia, 1917-Ain Defla, 1989) from L'Ahellil du Gourara: Timimoun Mostefa Lacheraf (Sidi Aissa, 1917-Algiers, 2007) from Country of Long Pain Mohammed Dib (Tlemcen, 1920-La Celle-Saint-Cloud, 2003) from Ombre Gardienne GUARDIAN SHADOW 1 GUARDIAN SHADOW 2 GUARDIAN SHADOW 3 DAWN BREAKS THE CRAZED HOUR NURSERY RHYME A VOICE Bachir Hadj Ali (Algiers, 1920-1991) Dreams in Disarray Oath Jean Pelegri (Rovigo, 1920-Paris, 2003) Open the Pebble Nourredine Aba (Ain Oulmene, 1921-Paris, 1996) from Lost Song of a Rediscovered Country Mohammed Al-Habib El-Forkani (Tahannaout, 1922-Rabat, 2008) "In a miserable world" "My yesterday pursues me" Frantz Fanon (Fort-de-France, 1925-Bethesda, Maryland, 1961) from On National Culture Jean Senac (Beni Saf, 1926-Algiers, 1973) Dawn Song of My People News in Brief The July Massacres Malek Haddad (Constantine, 1927-Algiers, 1978) The Long March Kateb Yacine (Guelma, 1929-Grenoble, 1989) Nedjma, or The Poem or the Knife from Nedjma Ismael Ait Djaafar (Algiers, 1929-1995) from Wail of the Arab Beggars of the Casbah Anna Greki (Batna, 1931-Algiers, 1966) The Future Is for Tomorrow Even in Winter Henri Krea (Algiers, 1933-Paris, 2) from Le Seisme au bord de la riviere Clandestine Travelers The Oral Tradition II More Kabylian Origin Stories The Origin of Shooting Stars The First Eclipse The Origin of Menstruation The Magic Grain: A Tale Kabyl Proverbs Songs Children's Rain Song "O night lights of Jew Town": A Song of the Hara from The Adventures of the Jew The Bride Who Was Too Large The Tail of the Comet More Riddles and Proverbs Satirical Nomad Poem Saharan Gharbi{ths}/{ths}Western-Style Anonymous Nomad Songs from Sirhat Banu Hilal (II): Sada Betrays Her Father for Love of Meri Fifth Diwan "Make It New": The Invention of Independence I Prologue Libya Muhammad al-Faituri (b. al-Janira, Sudan, 1930) The Story Incident The Question and the Answer Ibrahim al-Koni (b. Fezzan region, 1948) from Anubis: Dusk Ashur Etwebi (b. Tripoli, 1952) from Of Solitude and a Few Other Matters Faraj Bou al-Isha (b. 1956) Where Does This Pain Come From? Here I Am Wait Sleep Fatima Mahmoud (b. Tripoli, mid-twentieth century) What Was Not Conceivable Laila Neihoum (b. Benghazi, 1961) Melting Sun Khaled Mattawa (b. Benghazi, 1964) from East of Carthage: An Idyll Tunisia Claude Benady (Tunis, 1922-Boulogne, Hauts-de-Seine, 2) Thirst for a Country ... Struggle Al-Munsif al-Wahaybi (b. Kairouan, 1929) The Desert In the Arab House Ceremony Midani Ben Salah (Nefta, 1929-2006) In the Train with Them Noureddine Sammoud (b. Kelibia, 1932) The Eyes of My Love Salah Garmadi (Tunis, 1933-1982) Our Ancestors the Beduins Counsel for My Family after My Death Shams Nadir (Mohamed Aziza) (b. Tunis, 1940) from The Athanor Echoes from Isla-Negra Abderrazak Sahli (Hammamet, 1941-2009) Clerare Drac Moncef Ghachem (b. Mahdia, 1946) Mewall Fadhila Chabbi (b. Tozeur, 1946) The Blind Goddess Engraving Twenty-Nine Abdelwahab Meddeb (b. Tunis, 1946) from Talismano from Fantasia Muhammad al-Ghuzzi (b. Kairouan, 1949) Female Quatrains for Joy Moncef Ouahibi (b. Kairouan, 1949) from Under Sargon Boulus's Umbrella Khaled Najjar (b. Tunis, 1949) Stone Castle Boxes Poem 1 Poem 2 Poem 3 Poem 4 Poem 5 Tahar Bekri (b. Gabes, 1951) From War to War from I Call You Tunisia Amina Said (b. Tunis, 1953) Child of the Sun and the Earth I Am a Child and Free Moncef Mezghanni (b. Sfax, 1954) A Duck's Speech The Land of Narrow Dreams Adam Fet'hi (b. 1957) The Blind Glassblower Cavafy's Whip Dorra Chammam (b. Tunis, 1965) from Reefs and Other Consequences Amel Moussa (b. Tripoli, 1971) A Formal Poem Love Me Samia Ouederni (b. 1980) For Tunisia Mauritania Oumar Moussa Ba (Senegal village bordering Mauritania, 1921-1998) Well-Known Oxen The Banu Eyo-Eyo Plea Peul Poem Song of the Washerwoman Tene Youssouf Gueye (Kaedi, 1928-1988) The Meaning of the Circus Assane Youssouf Diallo (b. 1938) from Leyd'am Djibril Zakaria Sall (b. Rosso, 1939) To Nelson Mandela Ousmane-Moussa Diagana (Kaedi, 1951-Nouakchott, 2001) from Cherguiya Mbarka Mint al-Barra' (b. al-Madhardhara, 1957) Poetry and I Aicha Mint Chighaly (b. Kaedi, 1962) Praise on the Site of Aftout Nostalgic Song about Life Western Sahara Bahia Mahmud Awah (b. Auserd, 1960) The Books I Have Faith in Time A Poem Is You Orphan at a Starbucks Zahra el Hasnaui Ahmed (b. El Aaiun, 1963) Voices They Say That the Night ... Gazes Mohammed Ebnu (b. Amgala, 1968) Exile Children of Sun and Wind Message in a Bottle Chejdan Mahmud Yazid (b. Tindouf, 1972) Sirocco The Expectorated Scream Enough! Limam Boicha (b. Atar, 1973) The Roads of the South Boughs of Thirst Existence A Book of Exiles Prologue --> Diaspora Mario Scalesi (Tunis, 1892-Palermo, 1922) Symbolism New Year's Gift Sunrise Words of a Dying Soldier Envoy Jacques Berque (Frenda, 1910-Saint-Julien-en-Born, 1995) from "Truth and Poetry" on the Seksawa Tribe Jacques Derrida (Algiers, 1930-Paris, 2004) from The Monolingualism of the Other, or The Prosthesis of Origin Helene Cixous (b. Oran, 1937) Letter-Beings and Time Hubert Haddad (b. Tunis, 1947) A Quarter to Midnight <-- Diaspora Paul Bowles (New York, 1910-Tangier, 1999) from Africa Minor Juan Goytisolo (b. Barcelona, 1931) Dar Debbagh Cecile Oumhani (b. Namur, 1952) Young Woman at the Terrace The Oral Tradition III Prologue Aissa al Jarmuni al Harkati (Sidi R'ghis, now Oum El Bouaghi, 1885-Ain Beida, Oum El Bouaghi province, 1946) Poem about His Country, the "Watan" Quatrain about the Jews at a Wedding Party in the "Harat Lihud" Quarter in Constantine Quatrain about the Sufi Sheikh sidi Muhammad ben Said's Young Wife Who Had Died the Night Before Two Quatrains about Human Existence Two Quatrains on the Shawia People Sung at the Olympia in Paris (1936) Poem about Education Two Lyrics from al Harkati's Recorded Songs OH HORSE BREEDER! THE SLENDER ONE Qasi Udifella (1898-1950) Four Poems Mririda N'ait Attik (Megdaz, c. 1900-c. 1930) The Bad Lover What Do You Want? The Brooch The Song of the Azria Slimane Azem (Kabylia, 1918-Moissac, France, 1983) Taskurth (The Partridge) Cheikha Rimitti (Tessala, 1923-Paris, 2006) He Crushes Me The Girls of Bel Abbes The Worst of All Shelters Kheira (b. Tunisia, c. 1934) You Who Rebel against Fate, Rise and Face What God Has Ordained Mohammed Mrabet (b. Tangier, 1936) Si Mokhtar Hawad (b. north of Agadez, 1950) from Hijacked Horizon Lounis Ait Menguellet (b. Ighil Bouammas, 1950) Love, Love, Love Mohammed El Agidi (Morocco, twentieth century) "Tell me Sunken Well" Matoub Lounes (Taourirt Moussa, 1956-Tizi Ouzzou, 1998) Kenza My Soul Fifth Diwan "Make It New": The Invention of Independence II Algeria Mohammed Dib (Tlemcen, 1920-La Celle-Saint-Cloud, 2003) from Formulaires Jean Senac (Beni Saf, 1926-Algiers, 1973) Man Open Heliopolis Song of the Mortise I Like What's Difficult, Said You The Last Song Kateb Yacine (Guelma, 1929-Grenoble, 1989) from Le Polygone Etoile Nadia Guendouz Aouaouche (Algiers, 1932-1992) Green Fruit On Rue de la Lyre 1st May 1963 Assia Djebar (b. Cherchell, 1936) Poem for a Happy Algeria from Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade Malek Alloula (b. Oran, 1937) from The Colonial Harem Mourad Bourboune (b. Jijel, 1938) from The Muezzin Nabile Fares (b. Collo, 1940) Over There, Afar, Lights Rachid Boudjedra (b. Ain Beida, Oum El Bouaghi province, 1941) from Rain (Diary of an Insomniac) Abdelhamid Laghouati (b. Berrouaghia, 1943) "To embrace" Indictment Youcef Sebti (Boudious, 1943-Algiers, 1993) The Future Hell and Madness Ismael Abdoun (b. Bechar, 1945) "Faun-eye'd iceberg burn" Rabah Belamri (Bougaa, 1946-Paris, 1995) "Have we ever known" Inversed Jabbok Habib Tengour (b. Mostaganem, 1947) from Gravity of the Angel Hamida Chellali (b. Algiers, 1948) "In the days" from The Old Ones Hamid Skif (Oran, 1951-2011) Pedagogical Couscous Song Poem for My Prick Here I Am Hamid Tibouchi (b. Tibane, 1951) from The Young Traveler and the Old-Fashioned Ghost Mohamed Sehaba (b. Tafraoui, 1952) Far from Our Erg The Bird No Longer Sings I Miss Something ... Abdelmadjid Kaouah (b. Ain-Taya, near Algiers, 1954) Neck Modern Bar Majestic Tahar Djaout (Azeffoun, 1954-Algiers, 1993) March 15, 1962 Amin Khan (b. Algiers, 1956) Vision of the Return of Khadija to Opium Mourad Djebel (b. Annaba, 1967) Summer Mustapha Benfodil (b. Relizane, 1968) from I Conned Myself on a Levantine Day Al-Mahdi Acherchour (b. Sidi-Aich, 1973) In the Emptiness Return to the Missed Turn Samira Negrouche (b. Algiers, 1980) Coffee without Sugar Morocco Driss Chraibi (El Jadida, 1926-Drome, France, 2007) from Seen, Read, Heard Mohammed Sebbagh (b. Tetouan, 1929) from Seashell-Tree from Candles on the Road A Brief Moment The Missing Reader Maternal Instinct In Shackles If I Had a Friend Two Poems Mohamed Serghini (b. Fez, 1930) Poem I Poem III from Assembly of Dreams Abdelkrim Tabbal (b. Chefchaouen, 1931) To the Horse Happiness The Speech Absent Time Zaghloul Morsy (b. Marrakech, 1933) from From a Reticent Sun Mohamed Choukri (Ait Chiker, 1935-2003) from The Prophet's Slippers Ahmad al-Majjaty (Casablanca, 1936-1995) Arrival Disappointment The Stumbling of the Wind Abdelkebir Khatibi (El Jadida, 1938-Rabat, 2009) from Class Struggle in the Taoist Manner from Love in Two Languages Mohammed Khair-Eddine (Tafraout, 1941-Rabat, 1995) Horoscope Indictment from I, Bitter Ali Sadki Azayku (Taroudant, 1942-2004) Neighbor to Life The Shadows Mother Tongue Abdellatif Laabi (b. Fez, 1942) "I'm not the nomad" The Portrait of the Father The Anonymous Poet Letter to Florence Aubenas Mostafa Nissabouri (b. Casablanca, 1943) from Approach to the Desert Space Abdelmajid Benjelloun (b. Fez, 1944) The Flute of Origins, or The Taciturn Dance Eternity Comes Down on the Side of Love A Woman to Love as One Would Love to Revive after Death Tahar Ben Jelloun (b. Fez, 1944) from Harrouda Mohamed Sibari (b. Ksar el Kebir, 1945) From Very Far Away ... Confession Lady Night Malika El Assimi (b. Marrakech, 1946) Things Having Names Smoke Mariam The Snout Mohammed Bennis (b. Fez, 1948) from The Book of Love FOR YOU LETTER TO IBN HAZM Seven Birds Ahmed Lemsyeh (b. Sidi Ismail, 1950) Fragments of the Soul's Shadow I Miss My Self Rachida Madani (b. Tangier, 1951) from Walk through the Debris ... Mohammed al-Ashaari (b. Moulay Idriss Zerhoun, 1951) from A Vast Space ... Where There's No One Medhi Akhrif (b. Assilah, 1952) from The Tomb of Helen Half a Line Abdallah Zrika (b. Casablanca, 1953) from Drops from Black Candles from Some Prose: My Sister's Scream in Black and White Mubarak Wassat (b. Mzinda, Safi region, 1955) Balcony Innocence The Time of the Assassins Hassan Najmi (b. Ben Ahmed, 1959) The Window Couplets The Blueness of Evening The Train Yard Waafa Lamrani (b. Ksar el Kebir, 1960) Alphabet Fire A Shade of Probability The Eighth Day Ahmed Barakat (Casablanca, 1960-1994) Afterwards Black Pain The Torn Flag Touria Majdouline (b. Settat, 1960) A Minute's Speech Out of Context Ahmed Assid (b. Taourmit, Taroudant province, 1961) Prayer A Chamber the Color of Disgust Suns Mohamed El Amraoui (b. Fez, 1964) En Quelque Jerusalem Mohammed Hmoudane (b. Maaziz, 1968) from Incandescence Ouidad Benmoussa (b. Ksar el Kebir, 1969) Restaurant Tuyets This Planet ... Our Bed Road of Clouds Omar Berrada (b. Casablanca, 1978) Subtle Bonds of the Encounter: Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) / bpNichol (1944-1988) / Ibn Arabi (1165-1240) Credits Figure Credits Index of Authors

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