AUB Press

​The papers presented here are in the original languages in which they were delivered: eight in English, three in Arabic and one in French. A wide variety of subjects are covered, from Islam in Africa and Islamic law and contemporary issues, to Sufism and Muslim Art.

​​This compilation of articles by E. S. Kennedy, many of them joint publications with his students at AUB, covers a wide range of topics within the fields of Islamic astronomy, astrology, and mathematics.

This book is an account of the efforts of Dr. Edwin Lewis, a professor at the Syrian Protestant College (now the American University of Beirut) in the late nineteenth century to modify the system of Western musical notation to fit Arabic music (and more specifically, church music). In this work, Shafik Jeha addresses how musical notation was adapted to correspond with the right-to-left direction of Arabic musical texts, and includes the reactions of some Arab composers to the revised method of notation. How did this new method of music notation appear on the musical scene? How important was it to musicians in the Arab world? How did it spread? What problems did it face? What were the consequences of the new musical notation method? What were its advantages and its disadvantages? Shafik Jeha answers all these questions and many more in this book, which is divided into three parts: the first deals with the emergence of Arabized musical notation, the second addresses the development of this new type of notation, and the last elaborates on its dissemination.