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Printed Editions

8 titles in Arabic, printed in the original — Ibn Tufayl, Kahlil Gibran, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and 5 others. No English introductions, no commentary, just the text.

8 titles · every one a 6 × 9in hardcover

حي بن يقظان

Hayy ibn Yaqzan

Ibn Tufayl

Ibn Tufayl’s philosophical novel in the original Arabic, complete in 90 pages: a child raised alone on an equatorial island reasons his way from nothing to a complete metaphysics, with no teacher, book or language. It reached Latin in 1671 as Philosophus Autodidactus. Text from Arabic Wikisource.

6 × 9in hardcover · 90pp · Arabic · casewrap

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الأجنحة المتكسرة

The Broken Wings

Kahlil Gibran

Gibran's early novella in the original Arabic, complete in 104 pages. The book is imposed to open right to left, so the spine falls where an Arabic reader expects it and the text runs as the language runs. No English anywhere in the volume. Copy-text: Gibran, first edition 1912.

6 × 9in hardcover · 104pp · Arabic · casewrap

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المنقذ من الضلال · أيها الولد · مشكاة الأنوار

Deliverance from Error · O Youth · The Niche of Lights

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

Three works by al-Ghazali in the original Arabic, complete in 128 pages: al-Munqidh min al-Dalal, on losing his certainty and leaving the most celebrated chair in Baghdad to test theology, philosophy, Ismaili authority and Sufism; Ayyuha al-Walad, a letter to a student; and Mishkat al-Anwar, on the Verse of Light. Text from Arabic Wikisource.

6 × 9in hardcover · 128pp · Arabic · casewrap

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كليلة ودمنة

Kalila and Dimna

Ibn al-Muqaffa‘

Ibn al-Muqaffa‘’s animal fables in the original Arabic, complete in 238 pages — all nineteen chapters. Made from a lost Middle Persian version of the Sanskrit Panchatantra, and from this Arabic they passed into Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Spanish and eventually La Fontaine. Text from Arabic Wikisource.

6 × 9in hardcover · 238pp · Arabic · casewrap

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طوق الحمامة

The Ring of the Dove

Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi

Ibn Hazm’s treatise on love in the original Arabic, complete in 282 pages — all thirty-two chapters. Written in Muslim Spain, it anatomises love into its signs, its causes and its disasters, illustrated throughout from what he saw in Córdoba. It survives in a single manuscript. Text from Arabic Wikisource.

6 × 9in hardcover · 282pp · Arabic · casewrap

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البخلاء

The Book of Misers

al-Jahiz

Al-Jahiz’s book of misers in the original Arabic, complete in 308 pages: anecdotes, letters and speeches by and about the mean, from the most celebrated prose stylist of the Abbasid age. It is the earliest sustained portrait of ordinary urban life in Basra and Baghdad that survives. Text from Arabic Wikisource.

6 × 9in hardcover · 308pp · Arabic · casewrap

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رسالة الغفران

The Epistle of Forgiveness

al-Maʿarrī

The blind poet’s eleventh-century tour of paradise and hell in the company of the poets — a work Dante would have recognised — in Arabic. Complete in 358 pages, in the original Arabic; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 358pp · Arabic · casewrap

$27.99

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مقامات الحريري

The Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī

al-Ḥarīrī

Fifty assemblies of rhymed prose and verse around the rogue Abū Zayd — the most admired display of the Arabic language after the Qurʾān. Complete in 390 pages, in the original Arabic; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 390pp · Arabic · casewrap

$28.99

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