A. J. Arberry is one of Britain’s most distinguished and celebrated Orientalist scholars. This set contains five of Professor Arberry’s works: Scheherezade: Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (1953); The Seven Odes: The First Chapter in Arabic literature (1957); Classical Persian Literature (1958); The Romance of the Rubaiìyatì (1959); Oriental Essays: Portraits of Seven Scholars (1960); More Tales from the Masnavi (1963).
These titles include translations of key middle-eastern texts and informative works on Persian literature as well as the European scholars that paved the way for 20^th century Orientalist study. This set will be of interest to those studying Middle-Eastern literature and history.