Gibb Memorial Trust: 22 books

Cover of A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume II
by E.J.W. Gibb
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...
Cover of A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume VI
by E.J.W. Gibb
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...
Cover of A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume V
by E. J. W. Gibb
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...
Cover of A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume I
by E.J.W. Gibb
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...
Cover of A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume IV
by E.J.W. Gibb
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...
Cover of A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume III
by E. J. W. Gibb
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...
Cover of The Qur'an
by Alan Jones
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...
Cover of Averroes' Tahafut Al-Tahafut

Averroes' Tahafut Al-Tahafut

(The Incoherence of the Incoherence) Vol I and II

by Simon Van den Bergh
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,...
Cover of Abbasid Studies IV
by Monique Bernards
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,...
Cover of The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Vol II

The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Vol II

Translation of Books I and II

by Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Reynold A. Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013

The first of three volumes of the English translation of Rumi's great poem on Muslim mysticism.
Cover of The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Vol IV

The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Vol IV

Translation of Books III and IV

by Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Reynold A. Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013

The second of three volumes of Nicholson's translation of Rumi's great poem on Islamic mysticism.
Cover of The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Vol VI

The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Vol VI

Translation of Books V and VI

by Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Reynold A. Nicholson
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...
Cover of Averroes

Averroes

On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy

by George F. Hourani
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...
Cover of Islamic Crosspollinations

Islamic Crosspollinations

Interactions in the Medieval Middle East

by James Montgomery, Anna Akasoy, Peter E. Pormann
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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