Biography
b. Jerusalem, Palestine, 1938.
Shaykh Zayid bin Sultan Professor Emeritus, AUB. Formerly Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
Principal publications:
Books
- 1. Islamic Historiography: The Histories of Mas`udi (Albany: SUNY Press, 1975).
- 2. Studies in the History of Arabic Islamic Culture (in Arabic; Beirut: Dar al-Tali`a, 1977)
- 3. A Study in the Meaning and Method of History (in Arabic; Beirut: Dar al-Tali`a, 1982)
- 4. Editor, Land Tenure and Social Transformation in the Middle East (Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1984)
- 5. Classical Arab Islam (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1985)
- 6. Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
- 7. The Muslim Jesus; Sayings and stories in Islamic Literature (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001). [translated into 17 languages]
- 8. The Qur'an: A New Translation (London: Penguin Classics, 2008).
- 9. (Co-editor) Al-Jahiz: A Muslim Humanist for our Time (Wurzburg/Beirut: Ergon Verlag, 2009).
- 10. Images of Muhammad: Narratives of the Prophet in Islam Across the Centuries (New York: Doubleday, 2009).
- 11. (Co-editor) Poetry and History; The Value of Poetry in reconstructing Arab History (Beirut: AUB Press, 2011).
- 12. (Translated with Introduction) Abu Hatim al-Razi, The Proofs of Prophecy (Provo,Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2011).
- 13. (Translated with Introduction), Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist: the Life and Activism of Anbara Salam Khalidi (London: Pluto Press, 2013).
- 14. An Anthology of Arabic Literature: From the Ancient to the Modern (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016).
- 15. (Co-editor) In the House of Understanding: Histories in Memory of Kamal S. Salibi (Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 2017).
- 16. Ana wa'l Kutub [Books in my Life]. (In Arabic) Beirut: Manshurat al-Jamal, 2018.
Articles in academic journals and chapters in books:
19 articles and 25 chapters.
Publications with AUB Press: