This apologia is a document of great poignancy, composed in most elegant Arabic and translated with the customary skill and elegance for which A.J. Arberry became so well-known.

The Scholastic Problem was the focus of much debate in Islam for some centuries before it became the chief crux of learned discussion in medieval Christianity. When originally published in…

A translation of a selection of discourses by Persia’s great mystic and poet, Jalal-al-Din Rumi. Rumi was the principal inspiration behind the Sufi order, the Mawlawiyya, which many claim he…