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| Letter from the General Editor | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Notes to the Introduction | |
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| Verse | |
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| A Qasidah by �Abid ibn al-Abras | |
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| A Qasidah by 'Alqamah ibn 'Abadah | |
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| A Qasidah by al-Muthaqqib al-'Abdi | |
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| An Elegy (Marthiyah) by al-Khansa' | |
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| Polemics in Verse: An Invective Qasidah by al-Akhtal and a Reply by Jarir | |
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| Love in the Desert: A Qasidah by Dhu 1-Rummah | |
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| An Umayyad Ghazal Poem, used as an Abbasid Song Text | |
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| An 'Udhri Ghazal attributed to Majnun Layla | |
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| An Umayyad Ghazal by 'Umar ibn Abi Rabi'ah | |
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| A Love Poem by Umrn Khalid | |
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| Anti-Arab, Pro-Iranian Lampoon (Hija') by Bashshar ibn Burd | |
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| A Modern (Muhdath) Ghazal Epigram by Abu Nuwas | |
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| A Ghazal by Abu Nuwas: On a Boy Called 'Ali | |
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| Two Wine Poems by Abu Nuwas | |
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| A Lampooning Epigram (Hijd') by Abu Nuwas | |
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| A Ghazal Poem by al-�Abbas ibn al-Ahnaf | |
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| Three Love Epigrams by 'Ulayyah bint al-Mahdl | |
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| A Poem of Asceticism (Zuhdiyyah) by Abu 1-Atahiyah | |
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| Ibn d-Rumi: On His Poetry | |
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| A Qasidah by Ibn al-Rumi: A Party at �Abd al-Malik ibn Salih al-Hashimi's | |
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| A Panegyric Qasidah by al-Buhturi | |
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| A Victory Ode by al-Mutanabbi: The Qasidah on Sayf al-Dawlah's Recapture of the Fortress of al-Hadath | |
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| Nature Poetry: Two Epigrams by Ibn Khafajah | |
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| Stropbic Poem: A Muwashshahah by al-A'ma al-Tutili | |
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| An Anonymous Muwashshahah from Spain | |
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| There Descended to You: A Philosophical Allegory by Ibn Sina | |
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| Five Epigrams on Death and Belief, by Abu l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri | |
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| Mystical Ghazal: A Poem by Ibn al-Farid | |
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| A Mystical Zajal by al-Shushtari | |
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| Two Elegies on the Death of his Concubine, by Ibn Nubatah al-Misrl | |
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| A Zajal: An Elegy on the Elephant Marzuq | |
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| Rajaz | |
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| Early Rajaz | |
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| A Few Lines from the Poem of Proverbs by Abu l-'Atahiyah | |
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| A Few Lines from The Thousand-liner by Ibn Malik | |
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| Light Verse: A Domestic Disaster, by Abu 1-Hakam al Maghribi | |
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| "Didactic" Verse: From a Poem on How to Behave in Society, by Ibn Makanis | |
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| Prose | |
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| Examples of Early Rhymed Prose (Saj�) | |
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| A Pre-Islamic Tale: The Princess on the Myrtle Leaf (Three Versions) | |
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| How the Queen of Sheba Became Queen | |
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| Two Stories from Meadows of Gold by al-Mas'udi | |
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| Lives of The Poets: al-Farazdaq Tells the Story of Imru' al-Qays and the Girls at the Pond | |
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| Bedouin Romance: The Unhappy Love Story of Qays and Lubna | |
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| A Parable: The Human Condition, or The Man in the Pit | |
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| Mirror for Princes (and Others): Passages from Right Conduct by Ibn al-Muqaffa' | |
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| Al-Jahiz on Flies and Other Things | |
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| Essayistic Prose: Al-Tawhidi on the Superiority of the Arabs | |
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| History as Literature: Al-Amin and al-Ma'mun, the Sons of Harun al-Rashid | |
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| Moral Tales and Parables: Passages from The Epistles of the Sincere Brethren | |
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| Prose Narrative: Four Stories by al-Tanukhi | |
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| The Isfahan Maqamah by Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani | |
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| The Debate of Pen and Sword, by Ahmad Ibn Burd al-Asghar | |
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| A Visit to Heaven and Hell, by Abu l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri | |
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| Poetics: Ibn Rashiq on the Definition and Structure of Poetry | |
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| Literary Criticism: From The Secrets of Eloquence by 'Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani | |
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| Popular Science: Two Chapters from the Encyclopedia of Animals by al-Damiri | |
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| A Section from an Adah Encyclopedia: The Chapter on Stinginess from The Precious and Refined in Every Genre and Kind by al-Ibshihi | |
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| A Fairytale: The Tale of the Forty Girls | |
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| Erotica: The Young Girl and the Dough Kneader, from The Old Man's Rejuvenation by al-Tifashi | |
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| Two Burlesque Stories from Brains Confounded by al-Shirbini | |
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| Lyrical Prose: A Visit to the Bath, by al-Haymi al-Kawkabani | |
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| Notes | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Glossary of Names and Terms | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |
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| About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute | |
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| About the Typefaces | |
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| About the Translator | |