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1. Tayeb Salih,
   Season of Migration to the North,
   trans. Denys Johnson-Davies (London, U.K.: Heinemann, 1969). See also Jamal Mahjoub,
   Wings of Dust
   (Oxford, U.K.: Heinemann, 1994), which is itself a response, as it were, to Saleh’s book.
   

2. Hamidou Kane,
   Ambiguous Adventure,
   trans. Katherine Woods (New York: Walker, 1963).
   

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3. Abdel Rahman Munif,
   Cities of Salt,
   trans. Peter Theroux (New York: Random House, 1987).
   

4. Orhan Pamuk,
   Snow,
   trans. Maureen Freely (London, U.K.: Faber and Faber, 2004); Pamuk,
   My Name is Red,
   trans. Erdag Go¨ knar (New York: Alfred Knopf, 2001).
   

5. Sadegh Hedayat,
   The Blind Owl,
   trans. D. P. Costello (Repr., Edinburgh, U.K.: Rebel Inc., 1997); Albert Camus,
   The Stranger,
   trans. Matthew Ward (New York: Vintage Books, 1989).
   

6. Qurratulain Hyder,
   River of Fire,
   ‘‘transcreated’’ into English by the author (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998). See also
   Domains of Fear and Desire: Urdu Stories,
   ed. Muhammad Umar Memon (Toronto: TSAR, 1992).
   

7. Zayd Muti‘ Dammaj,
   The Hostage, A Novel,
   trans. May Jayyusi and Christopher Tingley (New York: Interlink, 1994).
   

8. Driss Chra¨ıbi,
   Muhammad, A Novel,
   trans. Nadia Benabid (Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998).
   

9. Syed Manzurul Islam,
   The Mapmakers of Spitalfi
   (Leeds, U.K.: Peepal Tree, 1997).
   

10. The Assemblies of Al Hariri,
    trans. Thomas Chenery (Repr., Farnborough: Gregg, 1969);
    The Maqamat of Badi al-Zaman al-Hamadhani,
    trans. W. J. Prendergast (Repr.,: London, U.K.: Curzon Press, 1973).
    

11. Judah al-Harizi,
    The Book of Tahkemoni,
    trans. David Simha Segal (Portland, Oregon: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001);
    The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes: His Fortunes and Adversities,
    trans. W. S. Merwin (New York: New York Review of Books, 2005).
    

12. The Arabian Nights,
    trans. Husain Haddawy (New York: W. W. Norton, 1990).
    

13. On Malay literature in general, see Sir Richard Winstedt,
    A History of Classical Malay Literature
    (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1961);
    The Book of Dede Korkut,
    trans. Geoffrey Lewis (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1974);
    Darangen: in Original Maranao Verse with English Translation,
    trans. Maria Delia Coronel, 8 vols. (Marawi City, Philippines: Folklore Division, University Research Center, Mindanao State University, 1986–1995).
    

14. Ass¨ıa Djebar,
    Far from Madina
    (London, U.K.: Quartet Books, 1994);
    The History of al-Tabari,
    38 vols., general editor Ehsan Yar-Shater, various translators (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1985–1999).
    

15. Jorge Luis Borges, ‘‘Al-Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv,’’ in
    Borges, A Reader,
    ed. Emir Rodriguez Monegal and Alistair Reid (New York: Dutton, 1981).
    

16. Sahih Al-Bukhari,
    trans. Muhammad Muhsin Khan, 6th ed., 9 vols. (Lahore, Pakistan: Kazi Publications, 1983);
    An-Nawawi’s Forty hadith,
    trans. Ezzeddin Ibrahim and Denys Johnson-Davies (Beirut: Holy Koran Publishing House, 1976).
    

17. The Introductory Chapters of Yaqut’s Mu‘jam al-Buldan,
    trans. Wadie Jwaideh (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1959);
    Hudud al-‘Alam, The Regions of the World,
    trans. Vladimir Minorsky (London, U.K.: Luzac, 1970).
    

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18. On Islamic biography generally, see Michael Cooperson,
    Classical Arabic Biography: the Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma’mun
    (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000). On Abu al-Faraj’s work, see Hilary Kilpatrick,
    Making the Great Book of Songs
    (London, U.K.: Routledge-Curzon, 2003).
    

19. The Life of Muhammad,
    trans. Alfred Guillaume (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1955).
    

20. Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition,
    ed. Dwight F. Reynolds (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001).
    

21. Ibn Khaldun,
    The Muqaddimah: an Introduction to History,
    trans. Franz Rosenthal, 2nd ed. (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1967).
    

22. Shawkat M. Toorawa, ‘‘Selections from the Autograph Notes of ‘Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi,’’ in
    Interpreting the Self,
    ed. Reynolds, 156–164; Toorawa, ‘‘Travel in the Medieval Islamic World: The Importance of Patronage as Illustrated by ‘Abd al- Latif al-Baghdadi (and other litte´rateurs),’’ in
    Eastward Bound: Travel and Travelers, 1050–1550,
    ed. Rosamund Allen (Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 2004), 57–70.
    

23. Emilie Ruete,
    Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar
    (Princeton, New Jersey: Markus Wiener, 1989).
    

24. The Baburnama,
    trans. Wheeler M. Thackston (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1996).
    

25. Ruzbihan Baqli,
    The Unveiling of Secrets: Diary of a Sufi Master,
    trans. Carl W. Ernst (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Parvardigar Press, 1997).
    

26. On the
    Han Kitab,
    see Zvi Ben-Dor-Benite,
    The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China
    (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005).
    

27. The Kashf al-Mahjub of al-Hujwiri,
    trans. Reynold A. Nicholson (London, U.K.: Luzac, 1936);
    Principles of Sufi by al-Qushayri,
    trans. B. R. von Schlegell (Berkeley: Mizan Press, 1992);
    Muslim Saints and Mystics: Episodes from the Tadhkirat al-Auliya’ by Farid al-Din Attar,
    trans. A.J. Arberry (Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1966).
    

28. Imam al-Haddad,
    The Book of Assistance,
    trans. Mostafa Badawi (Louisville, Kentucky: Fons Vitae, 1983); Muzaffer Ozek al-Jerrahi,
    Adornment of Hearts,
    trans. Muhtar Holland and Sixtina Friedrich (Westport, Connecticut: Pir Press, 1991).
    

29. Doorkeeper of the Heart: Versions of Rabi‘a
    (Putney, Vermont: Threshold Books, 1988).
    

30. Qasida Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa,
    vol. 1:
    Classical Traditions and Modern Meanings,
    ed. Stefan Sperl and Christopher Shackle (Leiden: J. E. Brill, 1996).
    

31. Qasida Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa,
    vol. 2:
    Eulogy’s Bounty, Meaning’s Abundance: An Anthology,
    ed. Stefan Sperl and Christopher Shackle (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996).
    

32. Wali Songo
    (The Nine Saints) are the nine Sufis who are said to have spread Islam in Java. Their deeds are told in the sixteenth-century
    Babad Tanah Jawa
    (Chronicles of the Land of Java).
    

33. See, for example, Abd al-Rahman al-Jami,
    Yusuf and Zulaikha: An Allegori- cal Romance,
    trans. David Pendlebury (London, U.K.: Octagon Press, 1980); and
    

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    Forugh Farrokhzad,
    Another Birth: Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season,
    

    trans. Ismail Salami (Tehran: Zabankadeh, 2001).
    

34. See, for example,
    Mir Taqi Mir, Selected Poetry,
    trans. K. C. Kanda (New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1997), and
    Diwan-e Ghalib,
    trans. Sarwat Rahman (New Delhi: Ghalib Institute, 2003).
    

35. See, for example Nazim Hikmet,
    Beyond the Walls,
    trans. Ruth Christie et al. (London, U.K.: Anvil Press Poetry, 2002).
    

36. See ‘Abdallah ibn ‘Ali ibn Nasir,
    Al-Inkishafi The Soul’s Awakening,
    

    trans. William Hichens (London, U.K.: Sheldon Press, 1939).
    

37. See for example, Khalil Gibran,
    The Madman: His Parables and Poems
    (Mineola, New York: Dover Press, 2002), and Agha Shahid Ali,
    Call me Ishmael Tonight
    (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003).
    

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