al-Muḥassin ibn ʿAlī al-Tanūkhī (Author)
Al-Muḥassin ibnʿAlī al-Tanūkhī (327–84/939–94) lived in
Basra and Baghdad. As a judge and man of letters belonging to a
family with many connections, he was well placed to record the
literary trends of his day. Deliverance Follows Adversity is one of
two anthologies he compiled.
Julia Bray (Edited and Translated by)
Julia Bray became the Abdulaziz Saud AlBabtain Laudian
Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford and a fellow of St.
John’s College in 2012, having previously taught at the
universities of Manchester, Edinburgh, St Andrews and Paris
8-Vincennes—Saint-Denis. She writes on medieval to early modern
Arabic literature, life-writing, and social history. She has
contributed to the New Cambridge History of Islam (2010), to Essays
in Arabic Literary Biography 1350-1850 (2009), and to
cross-cultural studies such as Approaches to the Byzantine Family
(2013) and edited Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam
(2006). With Wen-chin Ouyang, she edits the monograph series
Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature. With Helen
Blatherwick, she is editing a special issue of the journal Cultural
History on the history of emotions in Arabic.
This exemplary edition is made all the more appetizing through the
fluidity of Bray’s translation… This eminently readable and
scholarly volume permits English readers to explore Muslim outlooks
on life via remarkable stories—witty, terrifying, edifying and
sometimes surreal—in which the limits of our human control over
what God/Fate has in store for us are made very clear.
*Times Literary Supplement*
The translation is dazzling... There are delights here for the
specialist no less than for the reader with no Arabic. Al-Tanūkhī
has found his translator. One cannot read this book without a sense
of exhilaration and gratitude.
*Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā*
With this volume of stories in translation, the Library of Arabic
Literature, a project supported by the New York University Abu
Dhabi Institute, adds a major achievement to its treasures of
translated and edited Arabic texts... Bray combines meticulous
scholarly method with original approaches to translation.
*Speculum*
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
