the gingko library

Making the Modern Middle East

Pagan Christmas

This authoritative work sheds light on the religious world of the Kalasha people of the Birir val...

New Thinking in Islam

In Rethinking Islam, Katajun Amirpur argues that the West's impression of Islam as a backward-loo...

Christmas and the Qur’an

The familiar and heartwarming story of Christmas is one of hope, encapsulated by the birth of the...

Democracy is the Answer

As the Egyptian revolution unfolded throughout 2011 and the ensuing years, no one was better posi...

On Literature and Philosophy

Naguib Mahfouz is one of the most important writers in contemporary Arabic literature. Winner of ...

Essays of the Sadat Era

When Naguib Mahfouz quit his job as a civil servant in 1971, a Nobel Prize in literature was stil...

Off Limits

Nawal El Saadawi is a significant and broadly influential feminist writer, activist, physician, a...

Other Prophet

The Qur'an identifies Jesus as a sign of God, and he holds a place as one of the most important p...

New Divan

Now reaching its 200th anniversary, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's sequence of poems, the West-East...

West-Eastern Divan

In 1814, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe read the poems of the great fourteenth-century Persian poet H...

Early Ottoman Peloponnese - A Study in the Light of an Annot