Library of Judeo-Arabic Literature

EXCITING NEW PROJECT: Announcing METI’s new Library of Judeo-Arabic Literature (Morgan Davis).

On behalf of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, I am pleased to announce the addition of an important new series to our Middle Eastern Texts Initiative (METI). The series, to be called the Library of Judeo-Arabic Literature (LJAL), will publish works written by Jewish authors living within the Islamic world of the Middle Ages. At the invitation of James T. Robinson, a professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and David Sklare, of the Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem, an international team of scholars have come together to edit, translate, and publish these texts in the same dual-language format as other METI publications like the Islamic Translation Series and Eastern Christian Texts. The bilingual format makes primary texts and expert translations simultaneously available to experts, students, and general readers alike. Texts will be selected from across the entire range of genres represented in Judeo-Arabic literature, including philosophy, theology, Biblical interpretation, history, and many other genres.

Follow the link for more information. I have a number of the Arabic/English volumes from the Islamic Translations Series on my bookshelves and have even read some of them to help maintain my Arabic. They are excellent, and I very much look forward to this new series.