Featured Works
A curated selection of our book samples. Our full list of works for 2026 is available on request.
Al-Khiṭaṭ by al-Maqrīzī
المواعظ والاعتبار بذكر الخطط والآثار
B O O K S H E L F
طوق الحمامة
المعلقات
Tawq-al-Hamamah
Al-Mu'allaqat
Written in 11th-century al-Andalus by Ibn Ḥazm of Córdoba (994 – 1064), this classic prose work is one of the most refined meditations on love in world literature. Blending personal observation, anecdote and psychological insight, it explores longing, union, separation, fidelity and the ethics of affection. Set within the cultivated society of Islamic Spain, the book is both an intimate study of the human heart and a portrait of a sophisticated literary civilisation.
Written in the 15th century by the Egyptian historian Taqī al-Dīn al-Maqrīzī (1364–1442), this monumental work is the most detailed topographical and cultural record of medieval Cairo and Fustat. It documents mosques, schools, streets, markets, monuments, institutions and everyday urban life, preserving the memory of a city at its intellectual and architectural height. Part history, part urban archive.
Among the most celebrated works of early Arabic poetry, the Muʿallaqāt is a collection of pre-Islamic odes traditionally attributed to seven poets of 6th–early 7th centuries. These poems preserve the desert landscape, the codes of honour, love, loss and the nomadic imagination at the foundation of Arabic literary culture. Revered for their linguistic perfection and emotional power, they stand at the beginning of the long written memory of the Arab world.
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