Education

PhD, Arabic, University of California, Los Angeles (1988)
PhD, English, Yale University (1971)
BA, English, Columbia University (1963)

Publications

Articles

  • “Muslims, Jews, and Christians: How the Bible Was Translated into Arabic,” review of The Bible in Arabic: The Scriptures of the “People of the Book” in the Language of Islam, by Sidney H. Griffith. boundary 2, no. 42 (May 2012): 153–60.
  • The History of al-Ya‘qubi, translation from Arabic of Vol. 2, pp. 2–98; also serving co-editor for the entire translation (ca. 7 English volumes), expected date of publication 2017.
  • The Unveiling of Secrets Kashf al-Asrar: The Visionary Autobiography of Ruzbihan al-Baqli (1128-1209 A.D.), by Firoozeh Papan-Matin, in collaboration with Michael Fishbein (Brill, 2006). — edition of Arabic text from manuscript.
  • Al-Qabisi, “Al-Risalah al-Mufassilah li-Ahwal al-Muta‘allimin wa Ahkam al-Mu‘allimin wa al-Muta‘allimin” (“A Treatise Detailing the Circumstances of Students and the Rules Governing Teachers and Students”), in Classical Foundations of Islamic Educational Thought, ed. Bradley J. Cook, Islamic Translation Series, Brigham Young University Press, 2011. — translation.
  • Ibn Jama‘ah, “Tadhkirat al-Sami‘ wa al-Mutakallim fi Adab al-‘Alim wa al-Muta‘allim” (“A Mem­orandum for Listeners and Lecturers: Rules of Conduct for the Learned and the Learning”), in Classical Foundations of Islamic Educational Thought, ed. Bradley J. Cook, Islamic Translation Series, Brigham Young University Press, 2011. — translation.
  • Ibn Sahnun, “Kitab Adab al-Mu‘allimin”  (“Rules of Conduct for Teachers”), in Classical Foundations of Islamic Educational Thought, ed. Bradley J. Cook, Islamic Translation Series, Brigham Young University Press, 2011. — translation.
  • Review: Humanism, Culture, and Language in the Near East: Studies in Honor of Georg Krotkoff, in Al-‘Arabiyya (1998) 31:215–18.
  • The History of al-Tabari, Vol. VIII, The Triumph of Islam. Translation. State University of New York Press,1997.
  • A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature. Annotated and edited by S. A. Bonebakker and M. Fishbein. In series: Quaderni di Studi Arabi. Studi e testi, 1. Venice, Italy, 1995.
  • Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti’s History of Egypt. Edited by Thomas Philipp & Moshe Perlmann. Co-translator with Charles Wendell of Volume I, pp. 211–420. Franz Steiner Verlag, 1994.
  • The History of al-Tabari, Vol. XXXI, The War between Brothers. Translation. State University of New York Press, 1992.
  • Review: The History of al-Tabari , Vol. III, in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Vol. 26, No. 1 (July 1992), pp. 74–77.
  • The History of al-Tabari , Vol. XXI, The Victory of the Marwanids. Translation. State University of New York Press, 1990.
  • The Life of al-Mukhtar b. Abi  cUbayd in Some Early Arabic Historians. Doctoral dissertation, UCLA, September 1988.

Courses

Undergraduate
  • Introduction to the Near East: Medieval Near East (Middle Eastern Studies M50B)
  • Introduction to the Near East: Modern Near East (Middle Eastern Studies M50C)
  • Advanced Literary Arabic (Arabic 103A, Arabic 103B, Arabic 103C)
  • Introduction to Qur’anic & Islamic Arabic (Arabic 105)
  • Advanced Spoken Egyptian Arabic (Arabic 112A, Arabic 112B, Arabic 112C)
  • Arabic Media (Arabic 142)
  • Survey of Modern Arabic Literature in English (Arabic 151)