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Verses on hunter and quarry from a giant of Arabic poetry Arguably the greatest poet of the Arabic language, Abū Nuwās was renowned for his innovations in poetic genre and style and was a larger-than-life figure even among his contemporaries in Abbasid Baghdad. In A Demon Spirit, acclaimed translator and scholar James E. Montgomery renders this literary giant's hunting poetry, or ṭardiyyāt, translated for the first time in vivid English. Abū Nuwās's poems radiate brilliance, ingenuity, and lyrical attentiveness to both nature and body. These hunting poems convey the crackling energy of ruthless predators and wily prey, the worryingly uncertain outcome of perilous pursuits, and the mythic perfection of warriors both human and animal--all the while overturning genre structures and power dynamics with unforgettable imagery expressed in smooth, natural language. A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

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Abu Zakariyya Müyi'd-din Yäya ibn Sharaf an-Nawawi (631 AH/1233 CE - 676 AH/1277 CE) was an exemplary scholar of the hadith, Ash'ari kalam and the Shafi'i madhhab, noted for his commentary on ¿äi¿ Muslim, his collection of Forty Hadith, the Riyä ä-¿ali¿in, the Adhkar, which is a collection of dhikr and du'a from the Qur'an and the hadith, and a number of other significant works.The Garden of the Gnostics (Bustan al-'Arifin) is Imam an-Nawawi's work on täawwuf, drawing as is his wont on the Qur'an, with careful choice of hadith, and the sayings of the first generations (salaf) and eminent later people.Aisha Bewley is the translator of a large number of classical works of Islam and Sufism, often in collaboration with Abdalhaqq Bewley, notably The Noble Qur'an - a New Rendering of Its Meanings in English; Muhammad, Messenger of Allah - the translation of Qäi 'Iyä's ash-Shifa'; the Muwä¿a' of Imam Malik ibn Anas; and Imam an-Nawawi's Riyä ä-¿ali¿in.