Christian Arabic Texts in Translation
Series Editor: Stephen J. Davis, Yale University
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Series Advisory Board:
Michelle Al-Ferzly, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Jimmy Daccache, Yale University
Mark Swanson, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
Alexander Treiger, Dalhousie University
The goal of this new series is to provide a forum for making the Christian Arabic literary heritage more widely available in the English-speaking world. Individual volumes are meant to be affordable, published in small paperback format (typically less than 200 pages), and designed to give those who cannot read Arabic exposure to selections drawn from the rich range of Christian Arabic texts and genres, including biblical commentaries, church canons, histories and chronicles, theological and ascetic treatises, saints’ lives and sermons, liturgical documents, philosophical works, and scientific handbooks. The chronological focus of CATT will extend from the rise of Islam to the present, but with a special emphasis on the medieval golden age of Christian literature produced in the Arabic language. The translations will be accessible to a general educated readership and suitable for undergraduate teaching, while the accompanying introductions and notes will make the volumes useful for graduate-level research. In conjunction with Fordham University Press and Fordham’s Orthodox Christian Studies Center, the editor and advisory board have established a peer-review process for submitted manuscripts involving both internal and external readers.
Proposals for future volumes and manuscript submissions are welcome. If you have any questions, please contact the editor at [email protected].
Current and Forthcoming Titles
Ibn al-Tayyib's Commentary on Genesis
Translated by Deirdre Dempsey, Safwat Marzouk and Stephen J. Davis (2026)
The first English-language translation of a major biblical commentary written in Arabic by a seminal figure in the history of Christianity in the Middle East
Confession and Psychoanalysis
Spiro Jabbour
Translated by Aaron Frederick Eldridge(2026)
Spiro Jabbour’s enigmatic exploration of the resonances between the Eastern Christian science of the soul and psychoanalysis, now in annotated English translation
Guides to the Eucharist in Medieval Egypt
Three Arabic Commentaries on the Coptic Liturgy
Yūḥannā ibn Sabbā‘, Abū al-Barakāt ibn Kabar and Gabriel V of Alexandria
Edited and translated by Arsenius Mikhail (2022)
An English translation of excerpts from three key texts on the Coptic liturgy with a scholarly introduction to the works, their authors, and the Coptic liturgy, as well as a detailed explanatory apparatus
Revelation 1-3 in Christian Arabic Commentary
John's First Vision and the Letters to the Seven Churches
Presents English-language excerpts from thirteenth-century commentaries on the Apocalypse of John by two Egyptian authors, Būlus al-Būshī and Ibn Kātib Qas.ar, accompanied by scholarly introductions and critical annotations