Encyclopedia of Islam

Further reading: Lenn Evan Goodman, ed. and trans., 

The Case of the Animals versus Man before the King of 

the Jinn: A Tenth-Century Ecological Fable of the Pure 

Brethren of Basra (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1978); 

Ibn Marzuban, The Book of the Superiority of Dogs over 

Many of Those Who Wear Clothes. Translated and edited 

by G. R. Smith and M. A. S. Abdel Haleem (Warminster, 

U.K.: Aris & Phillips, 1978); Yusuf al-Qaradawi, The 

Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam (Indianapolis: Ameri-

can Trust Publications, n.d.); Ahmad b. Muhammad 

al-Thalabi, Arais al-majalis fi qis.as. al-anbiya, or, Lives of 

the Prophets. Translated by William M. Brinner (Leiden: 

E.J. Brill, 2002).