Faculty Publications

A sample of faculty publications. Refer to curriculum vitae on individual faculty pages for complete listings.

Martin Bernal

Black Athena: the Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization (Rutgers University Press, 1987).

Black Athena writes back: Martin Bernal responds to his critics, ed. David Chioni Moore (Duke University Press, 2001).

Ross Brann

The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991). Recipient of the 1992 National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Studies.

Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Jews and Muslims in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Islamic Spain (Princeton University Press, 2002).

Kim Haines-Eitzen

Guardians of Letters: Literacy, Power and the Transmitters of Early Christian Literature (Oxford University Press, 2000).

David S. Powers

Studies in Qur'an and Hadith: The Formation of the Islamic Law of Inheritance (University of California Press, 1986).

Law, Society, and Culture in the Maghrib, 1300-1500 (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Cynthia Robinson

Seeing Things: Textuality and Visuality in The Islamic World (co-author; Princeton Markus Wiener Press, 2001).

In Praise of Song: the Making of Courtly Culture in al-Andalus and Provence, 1065-1135 A.D. (Leiden Brill, 2002).

Shawkat M. Toorawa

Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (co-author; University of California Press, 2001).

Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture: Being a Bookman in 9th century Baghdad (RoutledgeCurzon, 2004).

Munther Younes

Elementary Arabic: An Integrated Approach (Yale University Press, 1995).

Intermediate Arabic: An Integrated Approach (Yale University Press, 1999).

Tales from Kalila wa Dimna for Students of Arabic (Spoken Language Services, 2001).