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Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations. Ashland: White Cloud Press 1999). ISBN 1-883991-30-7 (hardcover, $33.95), 1-883991-26-9 (paper, $21.95). Orders: ph/fax 800-380-8276. A general introduction to the Qur'an and its role in Islamic culture; new translations of the early Meccan Suras with facing commentaries; two essays on sound, gender, and meaning in the Qur'an; sound diagrams of the call the prayer and six suras; and a CD with Qur'anic reciters from around the world reciting the adhan and six suras in various styles. The goal is to make the early Meccan period of the Qur'an, in its literary and oral qualities, approachable and accessible to those not conversant in Arabic. AVAILABILITY: Because of the high demand, the book is sometimes out of stock; the most immediate and inexpensive way of obtaining the book is directly through the publisher: White Cloud Press. |
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Mystical Languages of Unsaying. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. ISBN 0-226-74786-7 (cloth); 0-226-74787-5 (paper) . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. A philosophical and literary study of Greek, Christian, and Islamic apophatic mystical language, with special attention to Plotinus, Eriugena, Ibn `Arabi, Eckhart, and Marguerite Porete. With original translations from the Greek, Arabic, Latin, medieval French, and medieval German. The book received a 1995 American Academy of Religion Award for New Book in the History of Religions (honorable mention). |
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The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy. New York: Columbia University Press, October 2003. ISBN 0-231-12666-2 (cloth); 0-231-12667-0 (paper). Co-edited with Emran Qureshi. A Critical Analysis of the Clash of Civilizations concept, the way it has been constructed, and the role it plays in contemporary international relations. Critical Introduction by Emran Qureshi and Michael Sells. Essays by Fatema Mernissi, Edward Said, Roy Mottahedeh, John Trumpbour, Rob Nixon, Mujeeb Khan, Maria Rosa Menocal, Tomaz Mastnak, Neil MacMaster, Norman Cigar, and Michael Sells. Orders: Columbia University Press. A Choice "Academic Book of the Year" for 2004. |
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The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, al-Andalus, co-edited with Maria Rosa Menocal and Ray Scheindlin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-521-47159-1 507 pages, 10 illustrations This volume also includes two of my own contributions: an essay on Love in the Andalusian poetic tradition and a complete new translation of Ibn Zaydun's love poem, the Nuniyya. |
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Stations of Desire: Love Elegies of Ibn `Arabi and New Poems. Jerusalem: Ibis Press, 2000. This volume includes an introduction to Ibn `Arabi's Translator of Desires (Turjuman al-Ashwaq) and new translations of 23 of the poems, along with a collection of my own poetry. Ordering information: The book can be ordered from Small Press Distribution (SPD), 1341 Seventh Street, Berkeley, CA 94710. Tel: 510-524-1668, Fax: 510-524-0852, email: spd@spdbooks.org. Event: Michael Sells, reading from Stations of Desire, at The Kitchen in NYC, co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America. Tue, 24 September 2002, 7PM,512 W. 19th St, with Palestinian poety Taha Muhammad Ali and with Richard Sieburth reading his translations of Jewish mystic Gerschom Scholem. |
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The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. ISBN 0-520-20690-8 (Cloth) $19.95. New Paperback Edition with a Preface on Kosovo, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), ISBN 0-520-21662-8, $14.95. Orders: 609-883-1759. Examines religious motivation and justification for the genocide, with emphasis upon the militarized mythology of Kosovo that portrays Bosnian Muslims as race-traitors and responsible for the death of the Christ-prince Lazar. Awarded the 1997 American Academy Religion Award for Excellence in Historical Studies. Bosnian Language Edition: Iznevjereni most (translated by Zoran Mutic) (Sarajevo: Sedam, 2002). For extensive documentation see The Bridge Betrayed War Crimes Reports Page. |
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Early Islamic Mysticism. Paulist Press: Classics of Western Spirituality Series, 1996. ISBN 0-8091-0477-6 (cloth); 0-8091-3619-8 (paper). Introductions and Translations of the Qur'an, the Mi`raj Accounts, Arabic Poetry, Tustari, Ja`far as-Sadiq, Muhasibi, Junayd, Hallaj, Rabi`a, Bistami, Sarraj, Qushayri, and Niffari, with a general Introduction to early Islamic spirituality. (Order Information: 1-201-825-7300; fax orders: 1-800-836-3161). Click here for orders for the Indonesian Edition. |
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Desert Tracings: Six Classic Arabian Odes. Middletown, Ct.: Wesleyan University Press, 1989. ISBN: 0-8195-1158-7 (paper). Middletown, Ct: Wesleyan University Press, 1989. Second Printing, 1996. Original Translations, and Critical Commentary on early Arabic odes by `Alqama, Shanfara, Labid, `Antara, Al-A`sha and Dhu al-Rumma, with a General Introduction to Classical Arabic Poetry. The translations of the odes by Shanfara and Dhu al-Rumma have been anthologized in the Harper-Collins World Reader 1:937-43; and 1:958-65. The translation of the Mu`allaqa of Labid has been accepted for the Norton Anthology of World Poetry. |
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