William M Brinner

William M. Brinner, Ph.D. (1956) in Semitic Languages at the University of California, Berkeley, is Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at that University, having retired in 1991. He has published among Islamic and Judaic studies: Readings in Modern Arabic Literature (Brill, 1972); and translations of Arabic texts, including A Chronicle of Damascus, 1389-97 by Muhammad ibn Sasra (University of California Press, 1961-62), An Elegant Composition Concerning Relief after Adversity by Nissim...See more

William M. Brinner, Ph.D. (1956) in Semitic Languages at the University of California, Berkeley, is Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at that University, having retired in 1991. He has published among Islamic and Judaic studies: Readings in Modern Arabic Literature (Brill, 1972); and translations of Arabic texts, including A Chronicle of Damascus, 1389-97 by Muhammad ibn Sasra (University of California Press, 1961-62), An Elegant Composition Concerning Relief after Adversity by Nissim ibn Jacob ibn Shahin, (Yale University Press, 1978); two volumes of The History of al-Tabari (State University of New York Press See less