Nancy N. Roberts is an award-winning translator of Arabic literature. Among her literary translations to date are:
Beirut ’75 by Ghada SammanBeirut Nightmares by Ghada SammanThe Night of the First Billion by Ghada SammanMuntaha by Hala El-BadryTime of White Horses by Ibrahim NasrallahOver the Bridge by Mohamed el-BisatieLove in the Rain by Naguib MahfouzThe Mirage by Naguib MahfouzThe Man from Bashmour by Salwa BakrHouse of the Wolf by Ezzat el KamhawiShe won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award for her translation of Ghada Samman's Beirut '75. She also received a commendation from the judges of the 2008 Banipal Prize for her translation of Salwa Bakr's The Man from Bashmour.
Roberts has also translated works on Islamic history, jurisprudence and Sufism. These include:
Islamic Jurisprudence According to the Four Sunni Schools, Volume I: Modes of Islamic Worship by Abd al-Rahman Ibn Muhammad Awad al-JaziriThe Jurisprudence of the Prophetic Biography, a translation of Fiqh al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah (فقه السيرة النبوية) by Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-ButiApostasy in Islam by Taha Jabir Alalwani