A J Arberry

Biographic Data

ID313376
NAMEA J Arberry
GIVEN NAMESA J
FAMILY NAMEArberry
SIGNATUREARBERRY A J
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS68
TOTAL CITATIONS29
AUTHOR COUNT68
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1935
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX3

  • Ethical and Religious Classics of East and West

    A J Arberry, H N Spalding et al.BOOKEthical and Religious Classics of…2021

  • The Seven Odes: The First Chapter in Arabic Literature

    A J ArberryBOOKRoutledge Revivals : the Seven Odes2018

    These seven poems, translated by A. J. Arberry in 1957, are the most famous survivors of a vast mass of poetry produced in the Arabian Desert in the sixth century. Arberry’s introduction explains to the reader what was known about the poems and how they came to be preserved and distributed over time. The epilogue particularly interrogates the authenticity of the poems and tracks how they have been transmitted over time. This work will be of inter…

  • Revelation and Reason in Islam

    A J ArberryBOOKRevelation and Reason in Islam2013

    Originally published in 1957. 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 this volume was the first survey of the subject to appear in English. It reviews the conflict within Islam between Revelation and Reason and examines the attempts made by theology, philosophy, mysticism and authoritarianism to resolve…

  • Classical Persian Literature

    A J ArberryBOOKClassical Persian Literature2006Cited by: 14

  • Mystical Poems of Rumi. Second Selection, Poems 201-400

    Victoria Rowe Holbrook, A J Arberry et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1987

  • A Sufi Martyr: The Apologia of Ain al-Qudat al-Hamadhani

    J Van E, Josef van Ess et al.ARTICLEDie Welt des Islams1973

    Originally published in 1969. This volume was composed by an eminent Sufi mystic whilst in prison in Baghdad, awaiting execution, in a vain attempt to overthrow his sentence; he was put to death in AD 1311 at the age of 33. 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

  • Religion in the Middle East

    Edward J Jurji, A J Arberry et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1972

  • Religion in the Middle East

    Otto Spies, A J Arberry et al.ARTICLEDie Welt des Islams1971

  • Plato's 'testament to Aristotle

    Open AccessA J ArberryARTICLEBulletin of the School of…1971

    Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī concluded his celebrated Akhlāq-i Nāṣirī with a string of aphorisms purporting to be 'a chapter from the utterances of Plato of profit to the generality of men: namely, the testament that he gave to his pupil Aristotle'. In his recent admirable translation, Professor G. M. Wickens comments that 'the aphorisms in this Section are of course not necessarily regarded as coming from one Platonic corpus: even Ṭūsī uses the term mansūb…

  • Two Rare Manuscripts

    A J ArberryARTICLEJournal of Arabic Literature1970

    TWO RARE MANUSCRIPTS This paper consists of brief notes, it is hoped useful, on the contents of two rare manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. 1 An entry in Hajji Khalifa runs- Neither this work, nor its author, is mentioned in Brockelmann or, seemingly, elsewhere: the Majnaa ` al aqivdl _ fi al-amthil by Muhammad b. "Abd al-Rahman b. Abi"1-Baqd' 'Abd Allah b. al- Husain al-'Ukbarl. However, a copy, albeit sadly defective, has turned…

  • Poems of al-Mutanabbī. A Selection with Introduction, Translations and Notes

    Trevor Le Gassick, A J Arberry et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1970

  • Muslim Saints and Mystics: Episodes from the Tadkihrat al-Auliya

    Edward J Jurji, Farid Ad-Din Attar et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1969

    This is a major work of Islamic mysticism by the great thirteenth-century Persian poet, Farid al-Din Attar. Translated by A J Arberry, Attar's work and thought is set in perspective in a substantial introduction

  • The Koran Illuminated: A Handlist of the Korans in the Chester Beatty Library

    A J ArberryARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1968

  • Dr. Reuben Levy

    Open AccessA J ArberryARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1967

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  • Arabic Poetry: A Primer for Students

    A J ArberryARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1967

  • Javidname

    Annemarie Schimmel, Annemarie Schımmel et al.ARTICLEDie Welt des Islams1966

  • The Koran Interpreted

    A J ArberryARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1965

  • Three Persian Poems

    A J ArberryARTICLEIran1964

  • A Maltese Anthology

    A J ArberryARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1964

  • The Vita of Ahmad-I Jām

    Open AccessA J ArberryARTICLEBulletin of the School of…1963

    The admirable dissertation on the biography of the Persian mystic and wonder-worker Aḥmad-i Jām by Dr. Heshmat Moayyed has now been followed by an edition of the chief text furnishing the basis for the biography. The learned editor knew of only one complete manuscript of this work, contained in MS Nafid Pasha 339, together with a fragment in Berlin Oct. 3784. The purpose of this paper is to bring to notice the existence of a second complete copy,…

  • Die Gedankenwelt des Harit al-Muhasibi

    A J Arberry, J Van E et al.ARTICLEDie Welt des Islams1962

  • Shiraz: Persian City of Saints and Poets

    George T Scanlon, A J ArberryARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1962

  • The Chester Beatty Library. A Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts and Miniatures

    M Minovi, B W Robinson et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1962

  • Bistamiana

    Open AccessA J ArberryARTICLEBulletin of the School of…1962References: 1

    In his interesting and provocative bookHindu and Muslim mysticism(Athlone Press, 1960), Professor R. C. Zaehner has discussed at length the part which lie believes Abū Yazīd al-Bistāmī played in introducing Vedāntin ideas into Muslim mysticism. In this paper it is proposed to re-examine some of the crucial texts upon which this theory has been based

  • The Chester Beatty Library. A Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts and Miniatures

    Mark J Dresden, A J Arberry et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1960