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The progressive spread of Arabic as the dominant spoken and written languagein the lands conquered by Islam led the Jewish, Christian and Samaritancommunities under its rule to translate their sacred scriptures into Arabic.This resulted in a large number of partial and integral translationsrevealing a great variety in stylistic approaches, vocabulary, script, anddogmatic concerns. This series addresses the lacuna in research bypublishing critical editions of Arabic books produced in the Middle Ages andbeyond, studies examining the different schools and persons that took partin this scriptural translation enterprise, as well as the social andcultural implications of their endeavor. In addition, the reception of andreactions to these Bible translations by Muslim authors fall within thescope of the series.The first book in this series, The Bible in Arabic: An AnnotatedBibliography, by Adam McCollum, is expected in the beginning of 2013.For further information about this new book series or enquiries regardingbook proposals, please contact any of the six members of the editorialboard: Camilla Adang, Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala, Meira Polliack, SabineSchmidtke, Alexander Treiger, Ronny VollandtNote de Diwan: l'annonce ne comporte ni coordonnées ni échéances:http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&#38;list=H-Mideast-Medieval&#38;month=1209&#38;week=a&#38;msg=zEaSGeg2NB%2b2GtaYMRoVKw