Dr. Marsden Jones (1920–92) was the founder and first director of the Center for Arabic Studies of the American University in Cairo. The studies in this volume reflect the diversity of Dr. Jones’ interests, including art and architecture, history, Islamic jurisprudence, and literature. The contributors — friends, students, and colleagues — include leading scholars from around the world. The volume is bilingual, with nine essays in English and six in Arabic. Contributors: Raouf Abbas, Thabet Abdullah, Roger Allen, M.M. Badawi, Muhammad Bereiri, Pascale Ghazaleh, Peter Gran, Arnold Green, Bernard O’Kane, George Saliba, George T. Scanlon, Muhammad Serag, Adel Suliman, Bernard Weiss, Caroline Williams.

Thabet Abdullah is an assistant professor of Middle East studies at Oklahoma State University. Bernard O’Kane is a professor of Islamic art and architecture at the American University in Cairo and author of Studies in Persian Art and Architecture (AUC Press, 1995). Hamdi Sakkut is a professor of Arabic literature and chair of the Department of Arabic Studies at the American University in Cairo. Muhammad Serag is a professor of Islamic law at the Faculty of Law, Alexandria University, and visiting professor at the Department of Arabic Studies of the American University in Cairo.