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AUB Faculty and Staff Book Publications: 2019-Present: Arabic and Near Eastern Languages

Explore monograph and chapter publications authored, edited, or translated by AUB faculty and staff between 2019 and to date.

Books by year

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AbdelMegeed, M. (2024). Literary optics: Staging the collective in the Nahda. Syracuse University Press. 

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Brand, T., & Orfali, B. (Eds.). (2024). In the steps of the Sultan essays in honor of Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn. American University of Beirut Press. Available at UL

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Jarrār, M. (2023). A critical edition of Kitāb al-Sawād al-Aʻam by al-Ḥakīm al-Samarqandī. Gorgias Press. https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240820 Available at UL

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Orfali, B., & Baalbaki, R. (2022). Radiant lights, eloquent wordsA scholarly edition of al-Anwār al-bahiyya fī taʿrīf maqāmāt fuṣaḥāʾ al-bariyya. Attributed to Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī (d. 429/1039). Brill.  https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004517059 Available at UL


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Orfali, B., Khalil, A., & Rustom, M. (Eds.). (2022). Mysticism and ethics in Islam. American University of Beirut Press. Available at UL


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Orfali, B., & Pomerantz, M. A. (2022). The Maqāmāt of Badīʻ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī : Authorship, texts, and contexts. Reichert Verlag. Available at UL

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al-Urfah'lī, B., & Khansah, Ī. (Eds.). (2021). Bawḥ al-murjān fī ikhtiyār al-khillān: Mukhtārāt ʻan al-ṣadāqah fī al-adab al-ʻArabī. al-Maktabah al-ʻArabīyah lil-Nāshiʼah. Available at UL


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al-Urfah'lī, B. (2021). Fan al-ikhtiyār al-adabī: Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʻālibī wa-kitābahu Yatīmat al-dahr. Dār al-ʻArabīyah lil-ʻUlūm Nāshirūn. Available at UL


 

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al-Urfah'lī, B.Khansah, Ī. (Eds.). (2021). Inna al-amr li-ghayr mā nashtaghil bi-hi: Mukhtārāt min Kitāb ibn al-Malik wa-al-nāsik. al-Maktabah al-ʻArabīyah lil-Nāshiʼah. Available at UL


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Orfali, B., & El Cheikh, N. M. (Eds.). (2021). Approaches to the study of pre-modern Arabic anthologies. Brill. Available at UL

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al-Urfah'lī, B., & Baʻlbakī, R. (Eds.). (2020). Kitāb Makārim al-akhlāq wa-maḥāsin al-ādāb wa-badāʼiʻ al-awṣāf wa-gharāʼib al-tashbīhāt. al-Dār al-ʻArabīyah lil-ʻUlūm Nāshirūn. Available at UL


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al-Urfah'lī, B.Khansah, Ī. (Eds.). (2020). Limā ishtadda ʻishq al-insān li-hādhā al-ʻālam?: Mukhtārāt min al-ʻawāmil wa-al-shawāmil : Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī yasʼal wa Abū ʻAlī Miskawīh yujīb. al-Maktabah al-ʻArabīyah lil-Nāshiʼah. Available at UL


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Baʻlbakī, R. (2020). al-Turāth al-muʻjamī al-ʻArabī min al-qarn al-thānī ḥattá al-qarn al-thānī ʻashar lil-Hijrah. al-Markaz al-ʻArabī lil-Abḥāth wa-Dirāsat al-Siyāsāt. Available at UL


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Baʻlbakī, R., & al-Urfah'lī, B. (Eds.). (2020). Khāṣṣ al-khāṣṣ fī al-amthāl : li-Abī Manṣūr ʻAbd-al-Malik Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ismāʻīl al-Thaʻālibī al-Nīshabūrīal-Maʻhad al-Almānī lil-Abḥāth al-Sharqīyah. Available at UL


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Dmitriev, K., Hauser, J., & Orfali, B. (Eds.). (2020). Insatiable appetite: Food as cultural signifier in the Middle East and beyond. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004409552 Available at UL


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El Cheikh, N. M. (2020). al-Nisāʼ wa-al-Islām wa-al-al-Hawīyyah al-ʻAbbāsīyyah (translated by H. Ramadan and edited by Bilāl al-Urfah'lī). Dār al-Mashrīq. Available at UL


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Jarrar, M., & Günther, S. (2020). Doctrinal instruction in early Islam: The Book of the explanation by the Sunna by Ghulām Khalīl (d. 275/888). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004429055 Available at UL

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al-Qāḍī, W. (2019). Mujtamaʻ al-qarn al-rābiʻ fī muʼallafāt Abī Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī (edited by Bilāl al-Urfah'lī). Dār al-Mashriq. Available at UL


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al-Sayyid, R., Ḥanafī, S., & al-Urfah'lī, B. (Eds.). (2019). Naḥwa iʻādat bināʼ al-dirāsāt al-Islāmīyah. al-Dār al-ʻArabīyah lil-ʻUlūm Nāshirūn. Available at UL


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al-Urfah'lī, B., Husāmī, M., Siblīnī, R., Wīnklir, B., & Yūnġī, K. (2019). al-Dirāsāt al-ʻArabīyah wa-intifāḍāt al-rabīʻ al-ʻArabī. Dār al-Mashriq. Available at UL


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al-Urfah'lī, B., & Khansah, Ī. (2019). Ḥiyākat al-kalām: al-lahfah wa-al-ṣudfah wa-al-khayāl fī kitābay al-Faraj baʻda al-shiddah wa-Nishwār al-muḥāḍarah lil-Qāḍī Abī ʻAlī al-Muḥassin ibn ʻAlī al-Tanūkhī. al-Maktabah al-ʻArabīyah lil-Nāshiʼah. Available at UL


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Elias, J. J., & Orfali, B. (Eds.). (2019). Light upon light: Essays in Islamic thought and history in honor of Gerhard Bowering. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004410121 Available at UL


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Orfali, B., & Pomerantz, M. A. (Eds.). (2019). The philosopher responds: An intellectual correspondence from the tenth century. New York University Press. Available at UL

Book chapters by year

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Khairallah, A. E., Abdel Malek, K., Ashtiany, M., Utas, B., Halman, T. S., Kocaoglu, T., & Schamiloglu, U. (2022). West and Central Asia. In Z. Longxi (Ed.), Literature: A world history, volume 3: 1500-1800 (pp. 813-861). Wiley Blackwell. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119775737.ch26

Khairallah, A. E., Brock, S., Yaktine, S., Nasser, S., Utas, B., Ashtiany, M., Kocaoglu, T., Schamiloglu, U., & Halman, T. S. (2022). West and Central Asia. In B. Utas & T. D'Haen (Eds.), Literature: A world history, volume 2: 200-1500 (pp. 433-526). Wiley Blackwell. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119775737.ch16

Khairallah, A. E., Damrosch, D., & Utas, B. (2022). West and Central Asia. In A. Pettersson (Ed.), Literature: A world history, volume 1: Before 200 CE (pp. 79-106). Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119775737.ch5

Khairallah, A. E., Yatkine, S. Khalidi, A., Ashtiany, M., Utas, B., Halman, T. S., Kocaoglu, T., & Schamiloglu, U. (2022). West and Central Asia. In D. Kadir (Ed.), Literature: A world history, volume 4: 1800-2000 (pp. 1221-1321). Wiley Blackwell. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119775737.ch35

Khansa, E. (2022). Nazhūn. In M. M. Sauer, D. Watt, & L. H. McAvoy (Eds.), The Palgrave encyclopedia of medieval women's writing in the global middle ages (pp. 1-5). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76219-3_32-1 Available at UL

Orfali, B., & Pomerantz, M. (2022). “You have become the amīr of my heart”: An edition of the Faṣāḥat al-mashūq fī malāḥat al-maʿshūq or the Maqāma Iqṭāʿiyya of al-Shābb al-Ẓarīf al-Tilimsānī (d. 688/1289). In H. Özkan & N. Papoutsakis (Eds.), Doing justice to a wronged literature: Essays on Arabic literature and rhetoric of the 12th-18th centuries in honour of Thomas Bauer (pp. 36-49). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004521780_005

Pettersson, A., & Jarrar, M. (2022). Europe. In B. Utas & T. D'Haen (Eds.), Literature: A world history, volume 2: 200-1500 (pp. 596-669). Wiley Blackwell. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119775737.ch20

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Halabi, Z. G. (2021). Keeping silent, or the silence that kept Wannous. In S. Mejcher-Atassi & R. Myers (Eds.), The theatre of Sa'dallah Wannous: A critical study of the Syrian playwright and public intellectual (pp. 59-77). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108973182.005 Available at UL

Khansa, E. (2021). “I begin with the kings”: Contextualizing knowledge in Ibn Bassām’s al-Dhakhīra. In B. Orfali & N. M. El Cheikh (Eds.), Approaches to the study of pre-modern Arabic anthologies (pp. 21-36). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004459090_003 Available at UL

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Jarrar, M. (2020). Exegetical designs of the Sīra: Tafsīr and Sīra. In M. Shah & M. Abdel Haleem (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of Qur'anic studies (pp. 620-633). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199698646.013.38 Available at UL

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Baalbaki, R. (2019). Grammar for beginners and Ibn Hišām’s Approach to issues of ʾiʿrāb. In M. E. B. Giolfo & K. Versteegh (Eds.), The foundations of Arabic linguistics IV: The evolution of theory (pp. 61-88). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004389694_005 Available at UL