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A. J. Arberry

A. J. Arberry

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Arthur John Arberry.

Works

  • The Rubai'yat of Jalal Al-Din Rumi: Select Translations Into English Verse (Emery Walker, London, 1949)
  • The Rubai'yat of Omar Khayyam. Edited from a Newly Discovered Manuscript Dated 658 (1259–60) in the Possession of A. Chester Beatty Esq. (Emery Walker, London, 1949) — unbeknown to Arberry or Alfred Chester Beatty, the "newly discovered manuscript" was a twentieth-century forgery.
  • Sufism: An Account of the Mystics of Islam (London: Allen & Unwin, 1950)
  • Avicenna on Theology (London: John Murray, 1951)
  • Omar Khayyam. A New Version, Based upon Recent Discoveries (London: John Murray, 1952) — based upon the Beatty and another forged manuscript
  • The Secrets of Selflessness (John Murray, London, 1953)
  • Moorish Poetry: A Translation of 'The Pennants', an Anthology Compiled in 1243 by the Andalusian Ibn Sa'id (University Press, Cambridge, 1953),
  • The Koran Interpreted (Allen & Unwin, London, 1955)
  • The Seven Odes: The First Chapter in Arabic Literature (Allen & Unwin, London, 1955)
  • Classical Persian Literature (1958)
  • Dun Karm, poet of Malta. Texts chosen and translated by A.J. Arberry; introduction, notes and glossary by P. Grech. Cambridge University Press 1961.
  • Muslim Saints and Mystics, A translation of episodes from the 'Tazkirat al-Awliya’ (Memorial of the Saints) originally written by Farid al-Din Attar (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1966)
  • Javid Nama (Allen & Unwin, London, 1966)
  • Poems of Al-Mutanabbi (University Press, Cambridge, 1967)
  • Discourses of Rumi, A translation of Fihi Ma Fihi, (Samuel Weiser, New York, 1972)
  • Mystical Poems of Rumi, Translated by A. J. Arberry, (University of Chicago Press, 2009)