Nancy N. Roberts
Nancy N. Roberts is an award-winning translator of Arabic literature.[1] Among her literary translations to date are:
- Beirut ’75 by Ghada Samman
- Beirut Nightmares by Ghada Samman
- The Night of the First Billion by Ghada Samman
- Muntaha by Hala El-Badry
- Time of White Horses by Ibrahim Nasrallah
- Over the Bridge by Mohamed el-Bisatie
- Love in the Rain by Naguib Mahfouz
- The Mirage by Naguib Mahfouz
- The Man from Bashmour by Salwa Bakr
- House of the Wolf by Ezzat el Kamhawi
She won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award for her translation of Ghada Samman's Beirut '75. She also received a commendation from the judges of the 2008 Banipal Prize for her translation of Salwa Bakr's The Man from Bashmour.[2]
Roberts has also translated works on Islamic history, jurisprudence and Sufism. These include:
- Islamic Jurisprudence According to the Four Sunni Schools, Volume I: Modes of Islamic Worship by Abd al-Rahman al-Jadiri
- The Jurisprudence of the Prophetic Biography, a translation of Fiqh al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah (فقه السيرة النبوية) by Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti
- Apostasy in Islam by Taha Jabir Alalwani
See also
References
- ↑ Profile in Banipal website
- ↑ American University in Cairo Press. Accessed 17 August 2014
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