The Complete Short Stories of Mohamed Choukri, Translated by Jonas Elbousty
The Age of Agade is the first book-length study of the Akkadian period of Mesopotamian history, which saw the rise and fall of the world’s first empire during more than a century of extraordinary political, social, and cultural innovation. It draws together more than 40 years of research by one of...
Writings from the Ancient World
“This volume offers the first complete English translation of the ancient Egyptian Netherworld Books, important compositions that decorated the New Kingdom royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings. These texts present one of humanity’s oldest surviving attempts to describe the unseen realms...
This is the first major study devoted to the early Arabic reception and adaption of the figure of Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary Egyptian sage to whom were ascribed numerous works on astrology, alchemy, talismans, medicine, and philosophy. Before the more famous Renaissance European reception...
A Study in their form and function
The Biography of the Prophet was published at Ghāfiq for Studies and Publication in Sanaa, Yemen on March 2023. The biography includes a general but short survey of the Arab peninsula at the advent of Islam. The book used some images and maps of major expeditions. It is intended for general Arabic...
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 107/2, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society 2018
The book publishes and discusses a newly recovered group of cuneiform texts from first millennium Babylonia and Assyria that provide some of the earliest prose descriptions of the figures represented by celestial constellations.
