James E. Montgomery is Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall. His latest publications are In Deadly Embrace: Arabic Hunting Poems, Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems, and Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice, with Michael Fishbein. In 2024 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy.
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Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī & Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān: Two Arabic Travel Books
Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and India is a compilation …
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€40.99
ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād: War Songs
Poems of love and battle by Arabia’s legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary war …
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€41.99
James E. Montgomery: Diwan ‘Antarah ibn Shaddad
The pre-Islamic warrior-poet ‘Antarah ibn Shaddad, a composer of one of the Mu’allaqat, attracted the attention of the philologists who were active in Iraq at the nascence of the scholarly study of A …
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€72.99
ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād: War Songs
Poems of love and battle by Arabia’s legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary war …
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€14.99
Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān: Mission to the Volga
The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north o …
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€14.99
Ibn Qutaybah: The Excellence of the Arabs
The Excellence of the Arabs is a spirited defense of Arab identity—its merits, values, and origins—at a time of political unrest and fragmentation, written by one of the most important scholars of th …
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€45.99
Gregor Schoeler: Biography of Muhammad
This book examines the nature and authenticity of the historical sources for the life of Mohammad. It explores both the aural and written traditions and analyses the reliability of the transmission p …
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€102.83
James E. Montgomery & Gregor Schoeler: Oral and the Written in Early Islam
Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the …
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€107.80
James E. (University of Cambridge, UK) Montgomery & Gregor (University of Basel, Switzerland) Schoeler: The Oral and the Written in Early Islam
Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the …
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€69.31
James E. (University of Cambridge, UK) Montgomery & Gregor (University of Basel, Switzerland) Schoeler: The Oral and the Written in Early Islam
Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the …
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€69.34
Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī & Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh: The Philosopher Responds
Questions and answers from two great philosophers Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subject …
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€44.99
Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī & Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh: The Philosopher Responds
Questions and answers from two great philosophers Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subject …
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€45.99
Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī & Abu ‘Ali Miskawayh: The Philosopher Responds
Questions and answers from two great philosophers Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subject …
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€99.99
Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī & Abu ‘Ali Miskawayh: The Philosopher Responds
Questions and answers from two great philosophers Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subject …
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€97.99
Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī & Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh: The Philosopher Responds
Questions and answers from two great philosophers Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subject …
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€14.99
Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ: Kalīlah and Dimnah
Timeless fables of loyalty and betrayal Like Aesop’s Fables, Kalīlah and Dimnah is a collection designed not only for moral instruction, but also for the entertainment of readers. The stories, which …
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€35.99
Ibn Qutaybah: Excellence of the Arabs
A spirited defense of Arab identity from a time of political unrest In ninth-century Abbasid Baghdad, the social prestige attached to claims of Arab identity had begun to decline. In The Excellence o …
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€17.97
Fate the Hunter
A rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt In the poems of Fate the Hunter, many of them translated into English for the first time, trained cheet …
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€29.99
Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ: Kalīlah and Dimnah
Timeless fables of loyalty and betrayal Like Aesop’s Fables, Kalīlah and Dimnah is a collection designed not only for moral instruction, but also for the entertainment of readers. The stories, which …
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€15.99
Ibn al-Muʿtazz: In Deadly Embrace
A collection of poems about nature and power To Ibn al-Muʿtazz and his Abbasid contemporaries, the hunt was more than a diversion—it was the theater for their poetic and political endeavors, captured …
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€29.99
Gregor (University of Basel, Switzerland) Schoeler: The Biography of Muhammad
This book considers the Arabic biographies of Prophet Muhammad, the earliest of which dates from two centuries after his life. These biographies, prized by Muslims, have been approached in the Wester …
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€61.55
Gregor (University of Basel, Switzerland) Schoeler: The Biography of Muhammad
This book considers the Arabic biographies of Prophet Muhammad, the earliest of which dates from two centuries after his life. These biographies, prized by Muslims, have been approached in the Wester …
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€61.62
James E. Montgomery: Al-Jahiz: In Praise of Books
Edinburgh University Press will publish two self-contained guides to reading al-Jahiz that also shed light on his society and its writings. This first volume, ‘In Praise of Books’, is devoted to bibl …
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€135.07
Fate the Hunter
A rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt In the poems of Fate the Hunter, many of them translated into English for the first time, trained cheet …
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€14.99
