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• Sufi literature

• The Literature of Arabia, With Critical and Biographical Sketches, ed. by Epiphanius Wilson (Gutenberg text)

• Rhetorics of Belonging: Nation, Narration, and Israel/Palestine (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, c2013), by Anna Bernard
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• The Gateway to Modern Arabic Poetry (English language version, 2007), ed. by Abdul-Settar Al-Assady, trans. by Munir Mezyed (multiple formats at archive.org)

• On Literature and Philosophy (The Non-Fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz v1; London: Gingko Library, c2016), by Najīb Maḥfūẓ, trans. by Aran Byrne, contrib. by Rasheed El-Enany (page images at JSTOR)

• The Gateway to Modern Arabic Poetry (English language version, 2007), ed. by Abdul-Settar Al-Assady, trans. by Munir Mezyed (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Oral Tradition of Classical Arabic Poetry: Its Character and Implications (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1978), by Michael Zwettler (PDF at Ohio State)

• Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation: A Critical Bibliography (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956), by Francis J. Carmody (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian Hilali Oral Epic Poet in Performance (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c1987), by Susan Slyomovics (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)
• Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian Hilali Oral Epic Poet in Performance (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c1987), by Susan Slyomovics (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)

• La Décade Égyptienne (full serial archives)

• Apocrypha Arabica (Studia Sinaitica No. 8; London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1901), ed. by Margaret Dunlop Gibson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), ed. by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (HTML at UC Press)

• The Oral Tradition of Classical Arabic Poetry: Its Character and Implications (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1978), by Michael Zwettler (PDF at Ohio State)

• Novel Palestine: Nation Through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah (Oakland: University of California Press, c2023), by Nora E. H. Parr (multiple formats with commentary at luminosoa.org)

• Shuwa Arabic Stories, With an Introduction and Vocabulary (Oxford: Printed at the University Press, 1921), by C. G. Howard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana (HTML at UC Press)

• Moorish Literature, Comprising Romantic Ballads, Tales of the Berbers, Stories of the Kabyles, Folk-Lore, and National Traditions (1901), trans. by René Basset, Epiphanius Wilson, J. G. Lockhart, Chauncey C. Starkweather, Gustave Mercier, Jacques Rivière, and Constantine Louis Sonneck (Gutenberg text)
• Moorish Literature, Comprising Romantic Ballads, Tales of the Berbers, Stories of the Kabyles, Folk-Lore, and National Traditions (revised edition; New York: The Colonial Press, c1901), trans. by René Basset, Epiphanius Wilson, J. G. Lockhart, Chauncey C. Starkweather, Gustave Mercier, Jacques Rivière, and Constantine Louis Sonneck
  • bound with 'Malayan literature'; multiple formats at archive.org
  • bound with 'Malayan literature'; page images at HathiTrust

• Oriental Tales (spine title of set of 15 volumes, each with its own title page; London: Athenaeum, 1884-1897), ed. by John Payne, contrib. by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, Thomas-Simon Gueullette, and Leonard C. Smithers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), ed. by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (HTML at UC Press)

• Arabian Poetry for English Readers (1881), ed. by W. A. Clouston (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Luzumiyat of Abu'l-Ala: Selected From His Luzum ma la Yalzam and Suct uz-Zand, and First Rendered Into English (second edition; New York: J. T. White and Co., 1920), by Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī, ed. by Ameen Fares Rihani (Gutenberg text)
• Specimens of Arabian Poetry, From the Earliest Time to the Extinction of the Khaliphat, with Some Account of the Authors (in Arabic, with English translations and notes; Cambridge, UK: Printed by J. Burges, 1796), ed. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Specimens of Arabian Poetry, From the Earliest Time to the Extinction of the Khaliphat, with Some Account of the Authors (in Arabic, with English translations and notes; Cambridge, UK: Printed by J. Burges, 1796), ed. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Tarjumán Al-Ashwáq: A Collection of Mystical Odes (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1911), by Ibn al-'Arabi, ed. by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Tarjumán Al-Ashwáq: A Collection of Mystical Odes (English portions only; c1911), by Ibn al-'Arabi, ed. by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The First Book of the Hadiqatu' l-Haqiqat; or, The Enclosed Garden of the Truth, of the Hakim Abu' l-Majd Majdud Sana'i of Ghazna, by Abu al-Majd Majdud ibn Adam Sana'i al-Ghaznavi, trans. by John Stephenson (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Sadi's Scroll of Wisdom (from the Wisdom of the East series; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1906), by Sa'di, contrib. by Arthur N. Wollaston (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Secret Rose Garden of Sa'd Ud Din Mahmud Shabistari: Rendered From the Persian With an Introduction, by Mahmud Shabistari, ed. by Florence Lederer (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1921), by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Bird Parliament, by Farid al-Din Attar, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Divan, Written in the Fourteenth Century (2 volumes; Kolkata: Government of India Printing Office, 1891), by Hafiz, ed. by H. Wilberforce Clarke
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Mesnevi, and the Acts of the Adepts (1881 book of translated selections from these works), by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi and Shams al-Din Ahmad Aflaki, trans. by James W. Redhouse (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Poems from the Divan of Hafiz (London: Heinemann, 1897), by Hafiz, trans. by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Discourses on Iranian Literature (Bombay: Parsi Pub. Co., 1909), by Dhanjishah Meherjibhai Madan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The K. R. Cama Memorial Volume: Essays on Iranian Subjects Written by Various Scholars in Honour of Mr. Kharshedji Rustamji Cama, on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (in English and various Iranian languages; Mumbai: Fort Printing Press, 1900), ed. by Jivanji Jamshedji Modi
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Oz Aloni (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Oz Aloni (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Oz Aloni (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Nomocanon Gregorii Barhebraei (in Syriac, with some Latin and French editorial matter; Paris and Leipzig: O. Harrassowitz, 1898), by Bar Hebraeus, ed. by Paul Bedjan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Spicilegium Syriacum: Containing Remains of Bardesn, Meliton, Abrose and Mara Bar Serapion (non-English portions omitted), ed. by William Cureton (HTML with commentary at tertullian.org)

• The Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands: A Representative of 'Aǧā'ib Literature in Syriac (with an English translation and commentary; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Sergey Minov (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands: A Representative of 'Aǧā'ib Literature in Syriac (with an English translation and commentary; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Sergey Minov (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Oz Aloni (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Oz Aloni (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Oz Aloni (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives from Israel (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1993), by Aliza Shenhar-Alroy, ed. by Hayah Bar-Yitshak, trans. by Miriam Widmann, contrib. by Haviva Dayan, Mordekhai Malka, Freha Hafutah, Rabbi Hanania Portal, Yamna Dayan, Yoseph Peretz, Juliette Megera, David Seruya, Asher Dayan, Sultana Shoshan, Ya'acov Edri, and Eliyahu Abu-Hatzera (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives from Israel (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1993), by Aliza Shenhar-Alroy, ed. by Hayah Bar-Yitshak, trans. by Miriam Widmann, contrib. by Haviva Dayan, Mordekhai Malka, Freha Hafutah, Rabbi Hanania Portal, Yamna Dayan, Yoseph Peretz, Juliette Megera, David Seruya, Asher Dayan, Sultana Shoshan, Ya'acov Edri, and Eliyahu Abu-Hatzera (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• La Littérature Nord-Africaine: Fonds, Ressources, Principes, Enquête (in French; Tunis: Bibliothèque Nord-Africaine, 1920), by Arthur Pellegrin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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