Research Guides: Sprague Library Exhibits: Muslim Journeys: Literary Reflections

Muslim Journeys: Literary Reflections - Fall 2013

Books from the Grant on Literary Reflections

The following five books were given to the Library as a recipient of the Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys grant. Click on blue link to see more information about the title.

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Arabian Nights by Husain Haddawy (Translator); Muhsin Mahdi Includes 28 tales from The Arabian Nights translated by Husain Haddawy on the basis of the oldest existing Arabic manuscript.
Call Number: PJ7715 .M87 2008

ISBN: 0393331660

Publication Date: 2008
Conference of the Birds by Farid Ud-Din Attar; Afkham Darbandi (Foreword by, Translator); Dick Davis (Foreword by, Introduction by, Translator)
Call Number: PK6451.F4 M2813 2011

ISBN: 0140444343

Publication Date: 2011

Composed in the twelfth century in northeastern Iran, Farid Attar’s great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature.
Dreams of Trespass : tales of a harem girlhood by Fatima Mernissi
Call Number: CT2678.M47 A3 1995

ISBN: 0201489376

Publication Date: 1995

Fatima Mernissi's rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem.
Minaret by Leila Aboulela
Call Number: PR6051.B68 M56 2005

ISBN: 0802170145

Publication Date: 2005

This novel follows the life of Najwa, an upper-class, westernised Sudanese woman who is forced into political exile in England.

Selected Related Books

Arabian Nights Encyclopedia by Ulrich Marzolph; Richard Van Leeuwen
ISBN: 1576072045

Publication Date: 2004
Adventures of Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan by Lena Jayyusi (Editor)
ISBN: 0253330343

Publication Date: 1996
Balcony over the Fakihani : three novellas by Liyana Badr; P. Clark (Translator); Christopher Tingley (Translator)
ISBN: 1566561078

Publication Date: 1993
Modern Arabic Fiction by Salma Khadra Jayyusi (Editor)
ISBN: 0231132549

Publication Date: 2005
Bedouin Poetry from Sinai and the Negev by Clinton Bailey; Wilfred Thesiger (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0198265476

Publication Date: 1991