NEW TITLES • MEDIEVAL STUDIES NEW TITLES • MEDIEVAL STUDIES PETER MacMILLAN, translator JACK WEATHERFORD Tales of Ise Genghis Khan and the Quest For God COMMENTARIES BY THE TRANSLATOR; FOREWORD BY DONALD KEENE PAID How the World’s Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom Presort Std U.S. Postage Permit No. 169 MEDIEVAL Tis poem-tale collection from the early Heian period is loosely comprised of stories Staten Island, NY “Genghis Khan…is not commonly considered a paragon of tolerance. But this account spanning a man’s youth to his death, ofering deep insight into courtly love in ancient Japan. of the laws and customs of his court presents a fgure who not only believed in freedom “Adds to the treasures of Japanese literature that can now be enjoyed in English translation. of religion but pioneered its implementation. Faced with unifying an empire that It is the most poetic translation of this work to date and establishes MacMillan as an encompassed numerous warring religions, the Mongols crafed policies that, Weatherford outstanding translator of Japanese poetry.”—Donald Keene, Columbia University argues, infuenced the architects of the U.S. Constitution.”—Te New Yorker PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 416 PAGES • 978-0-14-139257-8 • $17.00 STUDIES VIKING HARDCOVER • 432 PAGES • 978-0-7352-2115-4 • $28.00 SHIHAB AL-DIN AL-NUWAYRI NEW TITLES for 2017 ANDREW PETTEGREE The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most EDITED AND TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ELIAS MUHANNA Famous Man in Europe—and Started the Protestant Reformation Tis classical Islamic record of the knowledge of a civilization catalogs everything known “A fresh way of looking at Luther and his times. Of all the many new books which will to exist from the perspective of a 14th-century Egyptian scholar and litterateur. 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Schneider, Indiana University PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 496 PAGES • 978-0-241-29995-1 • $18.00 WWW.PENGUIN.COM/FACINFO PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 752 PAGES • 978-0-14-312791-8 • $22.00 For complimentary examination copies and personalized PAPERBACK AVAILABLE JUNE 2017 assistance in selecting titles for your courses, sign up for WWW.PENGUIN.COM/ACADEMIC NEW TITLES • MEDIEVAL STUDIES NEW TITLES • MEDIEVAL STUDIES PETER MacMILLAN, translator JACK WEATHERFORD Tales of Ise Genghis Khan and the Quest For God COMMENTARIES BY THE TRANSLATOR; FOREWORD BY DONALD KEENE PAID How the World’s Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom Presort Std U.S. Postage Permit No. 169 MEDIEVAL Tis poem-tale collection from the early Heian period is loosely comprised of stories Staten Island, NY “Genghis Khan…is not commonly considered a paragon of tolerance. But this account spanning a man’s youth to his death, ofering deep insight into courtly love in ancient Japan. of the laws and customs of his court presents a fgure who not only believed in freedom “Adds to the treasures of Japanese literature that can now be enjoyed in English translation. of religion but pioneered its implementation. Faced with unifying an empire that It is the most poetic translation of this work to date and establishes MacMillan as an encompassed numerous warring religions, the Mongols crafed policies that, Weatherford outstanding translator of Japanese poetry.”—Donald Keene, Columbia University argues, infuenced the architects of the U.S. Constitution.”—Te New Yorker PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 416 PAGES • 978-0-14-139257-8 • $17.00 STUDIES VIKING HARDCOVER • 432 PAGES • 978-0-7352-2115-4 • $28.00 SHIHAB AL-DIN AL-NUWAYRI NEW TITLES for 2017 ANDREW PETTEGREE The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most EDITED AND TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ELIAS MUHANNA Famous Man in Europe—and Started the Protestant Reformation Tis classical Islamic record of the knowledge of a civilization catalogs everything known “A fresh way of looking at Luther and his times. Of all the many new books which will to exist from the perspective of a 14th-century Egyptian scholar and litterateur. Here, the commemorate the momentous events of 1517, this will be one of the most original: not just compendium has been abridged, annotated, and translated into English for the frst time. a biography of Martin Luther, but a study which uses the printing industry as a lens through PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 352 PAGES • 978-0-14-310748-4 • $18.00 which to view his extraordinary achievement as writer and inspiration of the movement which reshaped European religion.”—Diarmaid MacCulloch, author of Te Reformation ABOLQASEM FERDOWSI PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 400 PAGES • 978-0-399-56323-2 • $18.00 Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings JERRY BROTTON TRANSLATED BY DICK DAVIS; FOREWORD BY AZAR NAFISI Acclaimed translator Davis has revised and expanded his translation, adding more than 100 PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP Academic Marketing Department 375 Hudson Street NY 10014-3657 New York, The Sultan and the Queen pages of newly translated text, making this the most complete English-language edition of The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam this epic work originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan in the 10th century. Revealing that Elizabethan England’s relationship with the Muslim world was