Istanbul: Topkapi Palace Museum; Tughra Books, 2009. Deluxe edition. Hardcover. Folio. 8 leaves. 251 (1)pp. Original gilt silk cloth with ornamentation at four corners and red lettering on covers, housed in matching clamshell box with gilt pull lever and additional publisher's printed, illustrated red cardboard box with yellow lettering. Gilt..... More
Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (11 1/2 x 8 3/4"). [2], 27, [1]pp (English text), 1004pp (Arabic). Original light green cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. "Al-Farra"s philological commentary, Ma'ani l-Qur'an, dating from the beginning of the 9th century, is..... More
Leiden: Brill, 2015-2016. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 2 vols. xxiii, (1), 454; xx, 344pp. Each volume with separate indices; Vol. 1, with a 40 page bibliography. Pictorial magenta boards lettered in white with lilac spine labels. A fine, as new set. Volume I offers an account of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī..... More
New York: AMS Press, 1975. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. 4 vols. Facsimile reprint of the 1896, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner edition. Brown cloth, gilt. A fine, as new set. More
Leipzig: Friedrich Christian Wilhelm Vogel, 1848. Softcover. 8vo. viii, 80pp. Original wrapper missing. Most pages unopened. Work complete, with a few pages missing from annotations at end. Translation of a work by Medieval Turkish Sufi (Islamic Mystic) Omar ben Suleiman, who lived in the 16th century. Translated and annotated by..... More
London: William Tegg & Co., 1857. New edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xvi, 132, 516pp. Index. Blue buckram, spine lettered in gilt. Illustrated with a large folding frontispiece view of the Mosque at Mecca, 3 genealogical tables (2, folding), and a folding map of Arabia. With a prefix of the life of..... More
Leiden: Brill, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xviii, 576, (2)pp. Indices and 12 page bibliography. Text in English and transliterated Aramaic. Pictorial red boards lettered in white, with pink spine label. Illustrated with numerous Isnad (strands of transmission) diagrams. A fine, as new copy. In The Formation of the Islamic..... More
Leipzig: Druck von Breitkopf und Härtel, 1863. First edition thus. Softcover. 8vo. 92pp. Followed by 1-page table of contents. Original wrappers. Scholarly work on the religion of the Arabs prior to the ascent of Islam. With appendix of Arabic source texts at end. This is the habilitation (second doctoral work..... More
Leiden: Brill, 2015. First edition. Octavo. 2 parts in 1, each with a title page. ix, (1), 59, (1), 550pp. Part 1 in English and Arabic; Part 2 in Arabic, translated from Persian, with English footnotes. Pictorial magenta boards lettered in white with lilac spine labels. Illustrated with six color..... More
Leipzig: Hirzel, 1865. Hardcover. 8vo. xiv, 110pp. Black paper covered boards with red label. Work on the Mu'tazila, a rationalistic Islamic school of thought that integrates elements from Greek philosophy. As shown by acclaimed Orientalist and scholar of Islam Ignaz Goldziher ("Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law (Princeton: Princeton University..... More
Leiden: Brill, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 319, (1)pp. Indices and 18 page bibliography. Text in English. Pictorial red boards lettered in white, with pink spine label. A fine, as new copy. In Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority, Aisha Geissinger examines quotations of exegetical materials attributed to..... More
Leiden: Brill, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv, 397, (1)pp. Index and 15 page bibliography. Text in English with occasional Chinese names & phrases. Boards with equal bands of white, gray and orange on spine. This important collection of articles by leading Chinese scholars of Islamic studies reflects current thinking..... More
Leiden: Brill, 2002. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 286pp. Gray cloth with blue lettering in original dust jacket. Printed on acid-free paper. Frontispiece. Illustrated title page. Work on Sufis [Islamic Mysticism] in Iran, written by Matthijs van den Bos, PhD (2000) in Social Science at the University of Amsterdam, who was at..... More
Hamburg: Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei A.-G. (vorm. J. F. Richter), 1889. Softcover. 8vo. 74pp. Original wrappers missing. Work on the Prophet Muhammad and the Quran, the Holy Book of Islam. Written by renowned Orientalist and scholar of Islamic thought, Alois Sprenger (1813 - 1893). As pointed out by Amin Kamaruddin (in..... More
Gieszen: Verlag von Alfred Töppelmann (vormals J. Ricker), 1906. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 21pp. followed by 10-page catalog of other works by same publisher. 1/2 cloth over stiff cardboard with handwritten title in black at spine. Original illustrated wrappers taped to inside of cardboard with gray binders tape. Pages unopened. Offprint..... More
Leiden: Brill, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xx, 334pp. Index and 13 page bibliography. Color printed pictorial light blue boards with black lettering, black band at foot of spine. A fine, as new copy. Islam in the Post-Secular Society: Religion, Secularity and the Antagonism of Recalcitrant Faith critically examines the..... More
Beyrouth (Lebanon): Imprimerie Catholique, 1926. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 288pp. Original printed softwrappers. First edition of this fascinating monograph on Islam, its history, beliefs, faith, and institutions. Some age-wear on wrappers with spine and edges age-toned. Tiny closed tears and chipping at tail of spine. Front corners slightly bumped, thus..... More
Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. 8vo. xiv,110pp. Original wrappers bound in modern three-quarter cloth over marbled boards with gold lettering on spine. Modern endpapers. Rare edition of a study by H. Steiner on the distinct Islamic school of Mu'tazilah. This speculative theology flourished during the 8th-10th centuries..... More
Leiden: Brill, 2015. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 202pp. Index and 24 page bibliography. Blue over red boards, spine lettered in white. A fine, as new copy. The Reconquista left unprecedentedly large numbers of Muslims living under Christian rule. Since Islamic religious and legal institutions had been developed by scholars who lived..... More
Leiden: Brill, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv, 420pp. Indices and 28 page bibliography. Green buckram with black top band, spine lettered in white and black. Illustrated with a map and 10 text photos (half in color). A fine, as new copy. In this monograph Philipp Bruckmayr examines the development..... More
Alger: Editions Carbonel, 1948. Third edition. Softcover. 8vo. 51pp. Wrappers. Work on the Medieval Islamic Neo-Platonic philosopher Ibn Rochd (see below). Browning throughout. Otherwise clean and tight. In French and Arabic. Very good condition. On Ibn Rochd (Source; Islamic Philosophy online): Ibn Rushd (known in medieval Latin as Averroës and..... More
New York: AMS Press, 1975. First edition thus. Hardcover. Octavo. (6), iii, (3), 538pp. Index. Brown cloth with gilt lettered spine. A near fine copy. More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/2"). ix, [1], 239, [1]pp. Original green cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. This bibliography offers a new and indispensable tool for both researchers and practitioners in the field of Islamic law. It supplements..... More
Halle: Verlag von Max Niemeyer, 1917. Softcover. 8vo. x, 120pp. Original wrappers. Pages unopened. Annotated translation of part of a major work by renowned of Iranian Muslim jurist, mystic, philosopher, psychologist and Sufi theologian, Abu Hamed Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali (1058-1111), a.k.a. Al-Ghazali or Algazel (see below). The book is..... More
Berlin: Ferd. Dümmlers Veragsbuchhandlung, Harrwitz und Großmann, 1873. Softcover. 8vo. vi, 80pp. Original wrappers missing. Work on Islam. Written by renowned Jewish-German Orientalist Emanuel (sometimes spelled Immanuel) Oscar Menahem Deutsch (see below). Front Wrapper missing, with rear wrapper starting to split but still attached. Binding still tight. Browning throughout. Otherwise..... More