Authoritative and reliable editions of the Arabic and modern, lucid English translations introducing treasures of the Arabic literary heritage
Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (Author)
Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (363-449/973-1058) was a major poet
and prose writer of the late Abbasid period. Born near Aleppo,
Syria, he lost his eyesight in childhood and was renowned for his
asceticism.
Geert Jan van Gelder (Edited and Translated by)
Geert Jan van Gelder was Laudian Professor of Arabic at the
University of Oxford from 1998 to 2012. He is the author of several
books on classical Arabic literature, including Beyond the Line:
Classical Arabic Literary Critics on the Coherence and Unity of the
Poem and Of Dishes and Discourse: Classical Arabic Literary
Representations of Food.
Gregor Schoeler (Edited and Translated by)
Gregor Schoeler was the chair of Islamic Studies at the
University of Basel from 1982 to 2009. His books in the fields of
Islamic Studies and classical Arabic literature include The Oral
and the Written in Early Islam, and Paradies und Holle, a partial
German translation of The Epistle of Forgiveness.
"Van Gelder and Schoeler present one of the most complex and unusual texts in Arabic literature, by al-Ma'arri (d. 1057 AD), maverick, poet and vegetarian." (Banipal Magazine)
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