Translations of historical novels by noted translators scholars were initiated in 2009 and have all been completed. The first novel, the Conquest of Andalusia, has been published and the other four novels are expected to be published by the spring of 2012.
1. The Conquest of Andalusia (Fath- al-Andalus).
Translated with an Afterword and Study Guide by Professor Roger Allen of the University of Pennsylvania and an introduction by the Zaidan Foundation.
2. The Battle of Poitiers (or Charles Martel and 'Abd al- Rahman).
Translated with a Study Guide by Professor William Granara of Harvard University and an introduction by the Zaidan Foundation.
Translated by Professor Issa J. Boullata of Mc Gill University with a Study Guide and an introduction by the Zaidan Foundation.
Translated with an Afterword and Study Guide by Professor Michael Cooperson of UCLA and an Introduction by the Zaidan Foundation.
5. Saladin and the Assassins(Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi).
Translated by Professor Paul Starkey of Durham University in the UK with a Study Guide and an Introduction by the Zaidan Foundation.
More details on these novels are available here.
A Symposium sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Zaidan Foundation on the works of Jurji Zaidan was held at the Library of Congress in Washington DC on Tuesday June 5, 2012. The Zaidan Foundation published in 2013 a volume of papers by noted scholars commissioned for the Symposium. It is entitled Jurji Zaidan's Contributions to Modern Arab Thought and Literature (ISBN 978-0-9848-4354-1) edited by George C. Zaidan and Thomas Philipp.
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See details of the Symposium here.
This volume by Thomas Philipp published in 2014 can be ordered from Syracuse University Press in New York. (ISBN Cloth: 978-0-8156 and E-book ISBN 978-0-8156-5271-7).