Jaysh al-tawshīḥ of Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb

Alan Jones is a specialist in early Arabic literature, and the author of Early Arabic Poetry, two books of translations and commentary on pre-Islamic poetry. He has been a lecturer and teacher of Arabic at Oxford University for 43 years; now retired he is at work on a commentary to accompany this new translation of the Qur’an. A Festschrift, Islamic Reflections, Arabic Musings was published by Oxbow on behalf of the Gibb Memorial Trust, in his honour.

• The Jaysh al-tawshih is second only to the Uddat al- Jalis of Ibn Bishri (published in this series in 1992) as a source of Andalusian Arabic muwashshahat. It contains 182 poems, of which 111 survive only in it, and includes 16 muwashshahat with 'Romance kharjas'. This edition contains the Arabic text.