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Dear colleagues,
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce a new project I am
coordinating through Yale University Press and to invite proposals for
translations.
Our series “World Thought in Translation,” supported by a major grant
from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, will make important works of
political, legal, social and ethical thought available in English
translation. Its focus will be on previously untranslated texts from
outside European traditions, particularly the Middle East and the
broader Islamic world, South Asia, China, East Asia, and Africa, but the
series will also be open to important but under-studied works
originally written in European languages, particularly from Russia,
Eastern Europe and Latin America.
The series will embrace both pre-modern and modern classics. Our
primary criteria are the enduring influence of the texts for political
and social debate and their unavailability to a wide English-speaking
audience. We thus intend to fill the most urgent gaps faced by faculty
seeking to teach courses on the political thought of non-Western
societies. Given that the works in question will be unfamiliar to
students, the translations will be accompanied by interpretive and
analytic essays to give readers a basic introduction to the texts’
backgrounds, the circumstances in which they were written, and their
subsequent influence within and outside their cultures.
These books are intended to be useful to faculty and students not
only in political science departments but also in such fields as
anthropology, history, religious studies, area studies and law. Some of
the works are expected to reach a sizeable popular audience beyond the
university.
We already have a number of projects in the pipeline, including
translations of Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi’s (d. 1285)
Al-Ihkam fi Tamyiz
al-Fatawa ʿan al-Ahkam wa Tasarrufat al-Qadi wa-l-Imam (translator:
Mohammed Fadel, Toronto) and Muhammad Rashid Rida’s
Al-Khilafah aw
al-Imamah al-‘Uzma (translator: Simon Wood). We are also considering
proposals to translate Rashid al-Ghannushi’s
al-Hurriyat al-’amma
fi’l-dawla al-islamiyya, al-Raghib al-Isfahani’s
K. al-dhari’a ila
makarim al-shari’a and Abu Hamid al-Ghazali’s
Mizan al-’amal.
I would like to invite members of this scholarly community to submit
proposals for collaboration. We take a wide view of what would make a
valuable contribution, and are interested in proposals from all
languages of the Muslim world. We are open to all kinds of proposals from any time period, any
country, any language and any intellectual persuasion from the broader
Islamic world.
Please address all queries to me at andrew.march at yale.edu.
Best wishes,
Andrew
Andrew F. March
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Yale University
http://www.yale.edu/polisci/people/amarch.html
