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Lives in Adab: Essays in Honour of Julia Bray
Author(s): Alexander Key (Editor), Letizia Osti
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date: 31 May 2026
- Language: English
- Print length: 496 pages
- ISBN-10: 139954313X
- ISBN-13: 9781399543132
Book Description
Essays and translations by modern-day scholars organised along the principles of the Arabic narrative tradition
- Essays by leading scholars from across the genres and disciplines of premodern Arabic
- Translations and commentaries of important and insufficiently known primary texts together with the Arabic original text of poems
- Cross-genre and cross-disciplinary connections – catalyzing future research
- Shows how a key feature of the Arabic literary tradition is relevant to how we think about scholarship today
- Provides readers with both an academic resource and an intellectual conversation with the past
Adab is not an English word, but it could become one. This collection, in honour of Julia Bray, experiments with juxtaposed articles, quotations, translations and lines of poetry to let readers create connections in the same way authors did a thousand years ago in Arabic. The collaboration is inspired by the ongoing work of Julia Bray, which continues to demonstrate the rewards of taking what we read seriously.
The field of Arabic studies is increasingly rejecting a hard line between the modern and the premodern. This book is an intervention in that development – arguing that the premodern can structure contemporary thinking. It offers translations, commentaries and discussions of important and insufficiently known primary texts together with the original Arabic text of poems. These cross-genre and cross-disciplinary connections can catalyse future research and show how a key feature of the Arabic literary tradition is relevant to how we think about scholarship today. The chapters provide readers with both an academic resource and an intellectual conversation with the past.
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About the Author
Letizia Osti is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures at the University of Milan. She is the author/editor of numerous books, including most recently
The Historian of Islam at Work: Essays in Honor of Hugh N. Kennedy (co-edited with Maaike van Berkel, Brill, 2022) and History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature (Bloomsbury, 2022).{“@context”:”:”https://schema.org”,”@type”:”Book”,”name”:”Lives in Adab: Essays in Honour of Julia Bray”,”image”:”https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Q0sIMjlfL._SY445_SX342_ML2_.jpg”,”author”:{“@type”:”Person”,”name”:”Alexander Key (Editor), Letizia Osti”},”publisher”:{“@type”:”Organization”,”name”:”Edinburgh University Press”},”datePublished”:”31 May 2026″,”isbn”:”9781399543132″,”numberOfPages”:496,”inLanguage”:”English”,”description”:”Essays and translations by modern-day scholars organised along the principles of the Arabic narrative traditionEssays by leading scholars from across the genres and disciplines of premodern ArabicTranslations and commentaries of important and insufficiently known primary texts together with the Arabic original text of poemsCross-genre and cross-disciplinary connections – catalyzing future researchShows how a key feature of the Arabic literary tradition is relevant to how we think about scholarship todayProvides readers with both an academic resource and an intellectual conversation with the pastAdab is not an English word, but it could become one. This collection, in honour of Julia Bray, experiments with juxtaposed articles, quotations, translations and lines of poetry to let readers create connections in the same way authors did a thousand years ago in Arabic. The collaboration is inspired by the ongoing work of Julia Bray, which continues to demonstrate the rewards of taking what we read seriously.The field of Arabic studies is increasingly rejecting a hard line between the modern and the premodern. This book is an intervention in that development – arguing that the premodern can structure contemporary thinking. It offers translations, commentaries and discussions of important and insufficiently known primary texts together with the original Arabic text of poems. These cross-genre and cross-disciplinary connections can catalyse future research and show how a key feature of the Arabic literary tradition is relevant to how we think about scholarship today. The chapters provide readers with both an academic resource and an intellectual conversation with the past.”,”url”:”https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/139954313X/”,”bookFormat”:”http://schema.org/EBook”,”additionalType”:”http://schema.org/PDF”,”fileSize”:”57 MB”,”accessibilityFeature”:[“login required”,”member access only”],”accessibilitySummary”:”PDF version available to authenticated members only. File size: 57 MB.”}
