Based on A J Arberry’s translation, this Companion can be used with other translations, or indeed with the original text, since the verses are numbered.

Originally published in 1964, this volume gathers together extracts from many of Arberry’s best-known works and supplements them with a selection of previously unpublished translations.

Originally published in 1986, this volume deals with the historical, philosophical and psychological concepts found in Islamic medical practices, and covers Islamic ideas on physiological, pathological, curative and preventative medicine.

Originally published 1972.The Ship of Sulaiman is an account of a Persian embassy which went to Siam in the latter part of the seventeenth century.

This wide-ranging collection by thirteen distinguished anthropologists contributes to the debate by examining various segmentary Islamic tribal societies from Morocco to Pakistan.

Originally published in 1985.

This collection of essays by one of the best known contemporary Muslim scholars writing in English covers many facets of Islamic life and thought.

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.

Originally published in 1962, this book presents important studies on the history, literature and religion of the Islamic peoples as well as an appraisal of contemporary intellectual currents in the Middle East.

This posthumous work of the renowned scholar Henri Pirenne offered a new and decisive explanation of the evolution of Europe from the time of Constantine to that of Charlemagne.