Faculty Books

Benjamin Foster
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...
John Coleman Darnell

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...
Kevin van Bladel
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...
Kathryn Slanski

A Study in their form and function

Muhammad Aziz
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...