A Companion to the Ancient Near East offers students and general readers a comprehensive overview of Near Eastern civilization from the Bronze Age to the conquests of Alexander the Great.
•Covers the civilizations of the Sumerians, Hittites, Babylonians, Assyrians, Israelites and Persians
•Places particular emphasis on social and cultural history
•Covers the legacy of the Ancient Near East in the medieval and modern worlds
•Provides a useful bibliographical guide to this field of study

The linguist and philologist Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) is best remembered as co-editor, with his brother Wilhelm, of Grimm's Fairy Tales, though their great Deutsches Wörterbuch remains an influential etymological reference work. Grimm's exhaustive study in comparative mythology and religion, Deutsche Mythologie, was first published in German in 1835: this English translation, published between 1880 and 1888, is of the posthumous fourth German edition of 1875. Drawing on his broad knowledge of language and world mythology, Grimm outlines a wide variety of themes in Germanic folklore (such as time, creation, destiny and the soul), comparing them to classical and oriental tales as well as charting the influence of Christianity on legends and on Pagan religion. The first three volumes contain Grimm's account of the myths and legends, while the fourth contains supplementary material and three appendices. This is an invaluable resource for scholars of mythology, religion and German cultural history.

《玛斯纳维全集》共分6卷，约计25000联诗句，约70万字。这是一部讲述苏菲神秘主义玄理的叙事诗集，书中的故事或取材于历史典故，或引自《古兰经》和圣训，或来源于民间寓言故事。全书以苏菲主义的“爱”为核心，用“玛斯纳维”这种双行韵诗体，使用夹叙夹议的表现手法穿插了大量的传闻轶事，借寓言故事和哲理箴言阐述了人与宇宙、理性与信仰、灵魂与肉体等关系，描述了苏菲主义的内心精神修炼途径和灵性感受。苏菲教徒们视此书为“知识的海洋”，被誉为“波斯的《古兰经》”。