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 a...... More
Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1841. Second edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xii, 330. Bound in blue library cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Title page printed to decorative paper. Introduction by Gustav Flügel in Latin. Qur'an in Arabic. Printed to handmade paper with Arabic text reproduced lithographically, with red border on each page and..... 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
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
Wilmette, Illinois: Bahai Publishing Committee, 1942. Hardcover. 4to. xxviii, 1039pp. Gray cloth with gilt embossed lettering. Five plates preceding title page: b/w photographic portrait of Bahaullah (Persian founder of the Bahai faith who taught that there is only one God, only one human race and that all the world’s religions..... 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, 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
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
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 in..... More
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (ix) 207pp. Yellow buckram boards with black lettering on the spine. Black heavy-stock endpapers. Judaic and middle-eastern studies scholar Alfred L. Ivry's translation of and commentary on Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al Kindi's pioneering work "On First Philosophy"..... 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 the..... 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
New York: Barnes & Noble, n.d. Softcover. Octavo. 196pp. Original decorative wrappers over red cloth with silver lettering on spine. Top edge red. Frontispiece. This work is the English translation of the German "Mohammed, Sein Leben und sein Glaube" by professor Tor Andrae, published in 1932. It is a thorough..... More
Elmhurst, NY: Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an, Inc., 2014. Seventh U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. 191, iv, 1951 (12)pp. Original black buckram with gilt lettering on spine housed in a cardboard box with black decorative top and gilt lettering on spine. Gilt edges. Gray endpapers. Lightface edition. Ribbon marker. Arabic text, with..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxx, 176 pp. + 1 oversize, fold-out map at rear. Blue cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Extremely interesting and insightful resource concerning the: view, relationship, holiness and history between Palestine, (Israel) and Islam. Scuffing and age..... More
Tel Aviv: Pinczower Reprints, 1972. Reprint. Softcover. 8vo. 32pp. Original wrappers. Reprint of the 1845 Vienna ("Verlag des Verfassers") - edition, including reprint of original title page, following reprint title page. Modern publisher's (Pinczower Reprints) announcements at last two pages. Work on circumcision in Islam and in the pre-Islamic Arabic..... More
Jerusalem: Printed in Palestine by Azriel Press, Jerusalem, 1937. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 30, [2]pp. Original printed wrappers. Frontispiece map of Palestine and Trans Jordan in Relation to Arab Territory. The object of this pamphlet is to give in a coordinated form information gathered by the author with respect to..... More
Rome: Istituto per L'Oriente, 1963. Reprint. Softcover. 8vo. 104pp. 100pp. Illustrated wrappers with red and black lettering. Reprint of 1893 Leipzig-edition of Qur'an (sometimes spelled Koran) with additional commentary. In Arabic, with commentary in Italian. Minor age wear. Very good condition. Part of a series: Publicazioni dell'Istituto per L'Oriente. 55..... More
Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 1968. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 27pp. Original white printed wraps. Lecture delivered March 28, 1968 at the dedication ceremony of the Eliahu Elath Chair of History of the Muslim Peoples (Turkish and Persian Studies). Euloggy in memory of Uriel Heyd by Gabriel Baer. Lecture on the..... More
Wiesbaden: Kommissionsverlag Franz Steiner GmbH, 1953. Softcover. 8vo. 38pp. Original wrappers. Collection of essays on "Islamkunde" (Orientalism) and "Kulturwissenschaft" (cultural studies). With contributions by renowned Orientalists Gustav E. von Grunebaum (see below), Hans Joachim Kissling, Wenrner Caskel and Berold Spuler. Age wear and fading to wrappers, with minor creasing and..... More
Westmead, Farnborough: Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1971. Reprint (First published in Breslau in 1909). 8vo. 91,1pp. Lacking binding. Essay by S. Horovitz on the influence of Greek philosophy on the Kalam. Text in German with some Arabic and Hebrew. Most leaves unopened, as issued. Poor condition, good reading copy. As..... More