Gibb Memorial Trust: 22 books
A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume II
Volume II: 1450-1520
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
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 Turkish literature. By the time of his early death in 1901 only the first volume had appeared in print. The remainder was almost complete and was seen...
A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume VI
Turkish Texts
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
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 Turkish literature. By the time of his early death in 1901 only the first volume had appeared in print. The remainder was almost complete and was seen...
A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume V
Volume V: 1859-
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
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 Turkish literature. By the time of his early death in 1901 only the first volume had appeared in print. The remainder was almost complete and was seen...
A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume I
Volume I: 1300-1450
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1902
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 Turkish literature. By the time of his early death in 1901 only the first volume had appeared in print. The remainder was almost complete and was seen...
A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume IV
Volume IV: 1700-1850
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1902
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 Turkish literature. By the time of his early death in 1901 only the first volume had appeared in print. The remainder was almost complete and was seen...
A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume III
Volume III: 1520-1600
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
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 Turkish literature. By the time of his early death in 1901 only the first volume had appeared in print. The remainder was almost complete and was seen...
by Alan Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2007
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 thence to mankind. Originally it was delivered orally: traditional sources indicate that Muhammad always recited his message. He was a preacher; he delivered...
Averroes' Tahafut Al-Tahafut
(The Incoherence of the Incoherence) Vol I and II
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Ibn Rushd, known to Christian Europe as Averroes, came from Córdoba in Spain and lived from 1126 to 1198. He is regarded as the last great Arab philosopher in the Classical tradition, and, under the patronage of the Almohad ruler Abu Ya'quib Yusuf, was a very prolific one. The Tahafut al-Tahafut,...
by Monique Bernards
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Soon after their successful revolution in 750 AD, the Abbāsids supplanted the Umayyad dynasty, built the new city of Baghdad, Iraq which became the capital of the Islamic Empire. The civilization that the Abbāsids helped to create carried forth the torch of knowledge lit by ancient Greece, Rome,...
The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Vol II
Translation of Books I and II
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The first of three volumes of the English translation of Rumi's great poem on Muslim mysticism.
The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Vol IV
Translation of Books III and IV
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The second of three volumes of Nicholson's translation of Rumi's great poem on Islamic mysticism.
The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Vol VI
Translation of Books V and VI
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi's great poem, the Mathnawi is one of the best known and most influential works of Muslim mysticism. Nicholson's critical edition is based on the oldest known manuscripts, including the earliest, dated 1278 and preserved in the Mevlana Museum at Konya. It remains the standard...
Averroes
On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In this treatise Ibn Rushd (Averroes) sets out to show that the Scriptural Law (shar') of Islam does not altogether prohibit the study of philosophy by Muslims, but, on the contrary, makes it a duty for a certain class of people, those with the capacity for "demonstrative" or scientific...
Islamic Crosspollinations
Interactions in the Medieval Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Islam as a cultural, intellectual, and religious venture appears in the popular imagination as a monolithic entity. Orientalists of the traditional ilk have tended to describe it in essentialist terms, whilst many fundamentalist Muslims themselves promote their construction of a pure and unadulterated...
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