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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.