Writing Gathering Field

The front cover of the Book of Rain by Abu Zaydf al-Ansari, edited and translated by David Larsen, to be published by Wave Books in 2025. There is no image on this book's cover, only text

A horizontal band of pseudo-Arabic writing is painted in gold leaf upon a fabric woven from blue, tan, and ivory threads.

Hands at Work
A Study of Banausic Craft
in Early Arabic Poetry

The front cover of Zeroes Were Hollow by David Larsen, published by Kenning Editions in 2022. Against a mauve-colored background, the book's title appears in bold block letters with a stylized triangle of smoke above and below. The author's name appears lower down, in smaller white block letters

Three stylized lilies appear against a yellow background on this Persian tile of the seventeenth century.

Published scholarship
and translations

The front cover of Names of the Lion by Ibn Khalawayh, edited and translated by David Larsen, and published by Wave Books in 2017. There is no image on this book's cover, only text.

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November 22, 2022

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