Modern Classics in Near Eastern Studies

The Arabic Book Johannes Pedersen
Translated by Geoffrey French

This long-awaited translation of Johannes Pedersen's Danish work Den Arabiske Bog (1946) describes in vivid detail the production of books in medieval Islam, and outlines the role of literature and scholarship in Islamic...

The Rise of Historical Writing Among the Arabs Abd Al-Aziz Duri
Edited by Fred M. Donner

This is the first translation of a classic work (Bahth fi nnsh' at 'ilm al ta' rikh 'inda l-'Arab) by the eminent Arab historian A. A. Duri. Published in Beirut in 1960, Duri's book was the first comprehensive effort to trace the...

An Historical Geography of Iran Vasilii Vladimirovich Barthold
Translated by Svat Soucek

This volume is a compendium of the rich archeological and literary evidence on the Iranian world in its larger sense, comprising part of what is now Soviet Central Asia and Afghanistan as well as Iran proper.

Originally published in 1984.

Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law Ignaz Goldziher
Translated by Andras Hamori and Ruth Hamori

The book description for the previously published "Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law" is not yet available.