Chronicles of the Crescent

A tale from al-Tha'labi's collection of stories of the Prophets. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

A story about a bird and the soul on a journey for true freedom by Ibn Sina/ Avicenna. Translation by Willard Trask and Henry Corbin. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

New mini-series on bird stories in the Islamic tradition! This episode is on a tale about a caged Parrot from the Masnavi of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

A story of patience and loss from the seerah of the Prophet SAW with details from al-Tabarī's telling. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

A story about getting lost at sea from al-Harirī's maqamāt! with thanks to Steinglass's masterful translations. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

Tales from Ibn Khallikan and Al-Safadī's works showcasing the humanness of notables and the allure of comedy and curiosity. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

Stories from Tabirī's tafsir on the first part of verse 2:102 of the Qur'an. I used some wordings from the Oxford translation of the text. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

An extract from the love story of Layla and Majnun as rendered by Nizamī (d. 1209 CE) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

A turkish folktale about a strange birth and its consequences --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

An extract from a story in the Epistles of the Ikhwan al-Safa. Background info from IEP. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

A story from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi and a brief introduction to the text. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

A story from the famed Kalila wa dimna! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

A retelling of the story of the saint Ibrahim b. Adham (d.160-161 AH/ 777-778 CE) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

Tales of Imam Ali, in commemoration of his passing as a shaheed. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

A tale from Uyghur folklore! Our Uyghur brothers and sisters are being seriously oppressed. Check out saveuighur.org for ways to help. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

A tale from Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi's Masnavi, as translated by Jawid Mojaddedi. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

A story from the Book of Dede Korkut! I used the black mask translation. Was first exposed to this text with Prof. Cemal Kafadar. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

A story from Destan-e Amir Hamza/ the Hamzahnameh! I recommend Musharraf Ali Farooqi's translation. also this is such a cool project https://www.launchgood.com/campaign/the_modern_hamzanama_prize#!/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

From the Malay Epic Hikayat Hang Tuah as translated by Muhammad Hajji Salleh. Drawing from scholarship of Nancy Nanney and Virginia Hooker. (and fair warning i use the words state and public anachronistically. my b) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

From SUNDIATA. AN EPIC OF OLD MALI by DJIBRILTAMSIR NIANE. TRANSLATED BY G.D. PICKETT. Sorry for messing up some pronunciations. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

A story from the Marzubannameh of al-Warawinī (13th century CE). Indebted to the translation of Reuben Levy and James Kritzeck's anthologizing efforts. Correction: def came from older stories and there are other versions of the work too. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

Story from a Hadith of the Prophet about the heights of commitment to faith. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

18th century Turkish epic with possible older origins and certain older antecedants about Imam Ali battling a dragon. My translation is often quite literal, and its late in the fasting day, so please forgive the repetition of words. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

A story from Zanzibar in the 19th century and a tale from al-Mas`udī's (d.345 AH/ 956 CE) history sharing a motif! The former was recorded by Bishop Edward Steere. Wording of the later based on Claud Field's translation. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

Episode 6 of the Ramadan blitz! This one is a classic but the original version is obscured. (Pic is painting by Maxfield Parrish! credits to wikipediaa) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

This story is from my grandfather! Variants found in the recent موسوعة الرقائق والأدب and in Naestri Sastri's (d.1909 CE) Indian Tales. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

A tale from the the Maqāmāt of Badiuzzaman al-Hamdanī (d.485 AH/ 1008 CE). The original is quite literary arabic, so this is very boiled down and retold from memory. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

Third entry in the Ramadan Blitz! A different kind of story about a very Muslim cat, as curated by the late Professor Simon Digby. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

Second entry in the Ramadan Blitz. A story about Umar (RA), a killer, and two brothers who lost their father. From Diyāb al-Itlidī's Nawādir al-Khulafah. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support

First story in the Ramadan Blitz! A tale of justice from the Siyasetnameh of Nizam al-Mulk (d. 465 AH/1092 CE). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abdul-rahman-latif/support