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Al-Tusi, Nasir al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad.
Kitab ad-darb wa'l-qisma fi 'ilm al-jabr wa al-hisab [On multiplication and division]. [Probably Persia, 14th/15th century CE].
Large 4to (187 x 274 mm). Arabic manuscript on paper. (18) pp., 31 lines per extensum. Written in clear, neat black naskh, emphases picked out or underlined in red; catchwords. Modern brown leather binding with blind rules and stamped central medallions to both covers. A late 14th or early 15th century mathematical manuscript, probably written in Iran or possibly the Eastern Mediterranean. The Persian scholar Nasir al-Din Muhamad ibn Muhamad ibn al-Hasan at-Tusi (1201-74) was known for his extensive work on science, physics, mathematics and theology. He is often credited with the invention and identification of trigonometry as an independent division of mathematics (cf. GAL I, 509), and the lunar crater "Nasireddin" is named after him. As well as compiling many important works in these fields, he is also known for translating the definitive Arabic editions of Euclid, Ptolemy and Archimedes' works, among others. The only other copy of his present work, treating multiplication and division in algebra and arithmetic, survives in the Topkapi Seray in Istanbul (MS 3327: a more extensive version in 3 books and 11 sections, 51 ff.). - Light dampstaining throughout, mostly confined to lower borders; edges frayed. GAL S I, p. 930, no. 36a. B. A. Rosenfeld & E. Thsanoglu, Mathematicians, Astronomers and other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and their Works (Istanbul 2003), pp. 211-219, M18. Krause, Stambuler Handschriften Islamischer Mathematiker, p. 497, no. 12.
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Al-Watwat al-Kutubi, Jamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Yahya.
Gurar al-hasa'is al-wadiha wa-`urar an-naqa'is al-fadiha. Bulaq, Matba`at Bulaq, [10-25 Jan. 1867] = second half of Ramadan 1284.
8vo. 12, 483, (1) pp. Contemporary half calf on four raised bands with sparsely gilt spine; pink cloth covers and marbled endpapers. First printing of this prose and verse anthology on the subject of Islamic ethics, containing eight chapters on virtues and another eight on vices. - Al-Watwat al-Kutubi (1234-1318), celebrated as an entertaining compiler, lived in Mamluk Egypt all his life. Unlike many writers of his era was not a member of the Mamluk administration, but rather a wealthy bookseller (hence his byname "Al-Kutubi", "the Bookseller"). - Binding slightly rubbed; paper evenly browned as common. Blank first page has contemporary ink ownership of Fernand Patorni (b. 1837), chief interpreter in Algiers and author of "Les Tirailleurs algériens dans le Sahara" (1884). GAL II, 55. OCLC 253615769.
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Alan SCHAM
Lyautey in Morocco, protectorate administration 1912-1925
University of California press | Los Angeles & London 1970 | 16 x 24 cm | reliure cartonnée de l'éditeur
Bookseller reference : 21730
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Alain KRIVINE - COLLECTIF
Rouge, hebdomadaire de la Ligue communiste N°204 "La bourgeoisie arabe contre le peuple palestinien"
Rouge | Paris 11 Mai 1973 | 29 x 43.50 cm | une feuille
Bookseller reference : 81842
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Alan Axelrod
America's Wars
John Wiley & Sons Inc 2002. Hardcover. Good/Very good. Dustjacket has some wear remnants of adhesive from price sticker in upper right corner and a small tear at top of spine. Cover has light wear. A number of small stains on top and right page edges. Stated first printing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc hardcover
Bookseller reference : 366 ISBN : 0471327972 9780471327974
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Alan R. Takylor
The Super Powers And The Middle East -
Syracuse University Press - 1991. Hardcover/pub.1991/Gd.condition/212 pages - The superpowers and the Middle East are discussed in this text. HT138411. Hardcover -. Good. Syracuse University Press - Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 38411
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Alan Richards; John Waterbury
A Political Economy of the Middle East
USA: HarperCollins 1996. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. N.B. Some light shelf wear. Crease to corner of front cover. HarperCollins Paperback
Bookseller reference : 041619 ISBN : 0813324114 9780813324111
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Albert LE BOULICAUT
Au pays des mystères, pélerinage d'un chrétien à La Mecque et à Médine
Plon | Paris 1913 | 12 x 19.50 cm | broché
Bookseller reference : 15734
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Albert Laurent Leopold EYNAUD
La chanson de Férizadé. Scènes de la vie turque en Anatolie. Extrait de la Revue des Deux Mondes
Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes | s. l. [Paris] s. d. [1873] | 15.50 x 25 cm | agrafé
Bookseller reference : 14297
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Albert Laurent Leopold EYNAUD
La montagne Kurde. Extrait de la Revue des Deux Mondes
Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes | s. l. [Paris] s. d. [1873] | 15.50 x 25 cm | agrafé
Bookseller reference : 14308
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ALBANO Maria, LACUNZA Balda Justo.
Il nuovo Iraq e il Medio Oriente. Introduzione di Khaled Fouad Allam.
In-8°, pp. 178. Bross. edit. illustrata.
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Albert
Tell the American People
Gabriola Island British Columbia Canada: New Society Pub 1980. PB/Fair condition/212 pages - Perspectives on the Iranian Revolution. K865HT9. Soft Cover. Good. New Society Pub Paperback
Bookseller reference : K865 ISBN : 0865710031 9780865710030
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Albert David H
Tell the American people: Perspectives on the Iranian revolution
Movement for a New Society 1980. TPB. G. GOOD-PLUS TRADE-PAPERBACK. SIGNED BY AUTHOR LONG VERY NICE INSCRIPTION FROM AUTHOR TO A FRIEND. UNDERLINED IN PENCIL . /KEYWORDS/: Iran--Politics and government--1979-1997.; Movement for a New Society paperback
Bookseller reference : 49071 ISBN : 0865710007 9780865710009
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Albert Habib Hourani 1915 1993
A History of the Arab Peoples
xx551 pages with plates maps bibliography and index. Royal octavo 9 1/2" x 6 1/2" bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Third edition. Hourani's most popular work is A History of the Arab Peoples 1991 a readable introduction to the history of the Middle East and an international best seller. Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1789–1939 1962 is one of the first scientific attempts at a comprehensive analysis of the nahda the Arab revival of the 19th century and the opening of the Arab world to modern European culture; it remains one of the major works on this subject. Syria and Lebanon 1946 and Minorities in the Arab World 1947 are other major works. He also wrote extensive works on the orientalist perspective on Middle Eastern cultures through the 18th and 19th centuries and he developed the influential concept of the "urban notables" – political and social elites in provincial Middle Eastern cities and towns that served as intermediaries between imperial capitals such as Istanbul under the Ottoman Turks and provincial society. Condition: Occasional underlining through page 23 else a very good copy in a better than very good jacket. Harvard University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : BOOKS008161 ISBN : 0674395654 9780674395657
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Albert Hourani
A History of the Arab Peoples
Belknap Press of Harvard University 1991. Nice copy with dust jacket. Just minor shelfwear. Pages of text are clean bright and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. Superior service: accurate descriptions prompt shipping and virtually all items carefully packed in boxes not envelopes . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Belknap Press of Harvard University Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 226686 ISBN : 0674395654 9780674395657
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Albert Hourani
A History Of The Arab Peoples -
Belknap Press - 1991. Hardcover/pub.1991/Gd.condition/551 pages - A histoyr of the Arab People is discussed in this text. HT238493. Hardcover. Good. Belknap Press - hardcover
Bookseller reference : 38493
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Albonesi, Teseo Ambrogio degli.
Introductio in Chaldaicam lingua[m], Syriaca[m], atq[ue] Armenica[m], & dece[m] alias linguas. [Pavia, G. M. Simonetta], 1539.
4to. 213 (instead of 215) ff. (lacking ff. 212-213 and final blank). Title printed in red and black. With woodcut title border and two nearly full-page woodcuts in the text. 19th century half calf (restored) with giltstamped spine. First edition. "The earliest Syrian and Armenian grammar printed" (IA). Extremely rare and early work of oriental studies, also important for the history of music due to the first illustrated description of the bassoon, which the author's uncle, Afranio degli Albonesi, had invented early in the century and had first demonstrated in 1532. - The canon regular Teseo Ambrogio degli Albonesi (often simply referred to as Ambrogio or Ambrosius; 1469-1540) taught the Syriac language. This introduction to the oriental languages - his only publication - is a mixture of lingustic treatise and a collection of exotic alphabets. If Albonesi's results are not in every case correct, they remain of great importance to the history of linguistic scholarship: the "Introductio" constitutes one of those works which inspired the budding discipline of comparative philology to undertake further research. "His work offers a detailed survey of the Syriac and Armenian languages from various points of view, and a short notice about the other exotic languages (Samaritan, Arabic, Coptic, Cyrillic, Ethiopic) - these languages are all discussed with examples written by hand in the earlier chapters, and throughout the work we find blank spaces where such words had still to be filled in" (Smitskamp). Some of the blank spaces mentioned have been filled in in ink by a contemporary hand. Lacks the final two pages of text (including the colophon). Slight worming to upper margin near end. Edit 16, CNCE 816. Adams A 957. Mortimer 20. BM-STC Italian 16. Eitner I, 91. MGG III, 1721. Smitskamp 240. IA 104.625. Brunet I, 229. Graesse I, 59.
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Albonesi, Teseo Ambrogio degli.
Introductio in Chaldaicam lingua[m], Syriaca[m], atq[ue] Armenica[m], & dece[m] alias linguas. [Pavia, G. M. Simonetta], 1539.
4to. 212 (instead of 215) ff. (lacking ff. 209, 212-213 and final blank). Title printed in red and black. With woodcut title border and two nearly full-page woodcuts in the text. Contemporary limp vellum with ms. spine title. Traces of ties. First edition. "The earliest Syrian and Armenian grammar printed" (IA). Extremely rare and early work of oriental studies, also important for the history of music due to the first illustrated description of the bassoon, which the author's uncle, Afranio degli Albonesi, had invented early in the century and had first demonstrated in 1532. - The canon regular Teseo Ambrogio degli Albonesi (often simply referred to as Ambrogio or Ambrosius; 1469-1540) taught the Syriac language. This introduction to the oriental languages - his only publication - is a mixture of lingustic treatise and a collection of exotic alphabets. If Albonesi's results are not in every case correct, they remain of great importance to the history of linguistic scholarship: the "Introductio" constitutes one of those works which inspired the budding discipline of comparative philology to undertake further research. "His work offers a detailed survey of the Syriac and Armenian languages from various points of view, and a short notice about the other exotic languages (Samaritan, Arabic, Coptic, Cyrillic, Ethiopic) - these languages are all discussed with examples written by hand in the earlier chapters, and throughout the work we find blank spaces where such words had still to be filled in" (Smitskamp). In this copy, these blank spaces have been filled in in ink by a contemporary hand. - Near-contemporary ownership, in Hebrew cursive, to title page. Minor edge tear to fol. 191. Binding loosened; lacks four pages in the final quire (including the colophon). Edit 16, CNCE 816. Adams A 957. Mortimer 20. BM-STC Italian 16. Eitner I, 91. MGG III, 1721. Smitskamp 240. IA 104.625. Brunet I, 229. Graesse I, 59.
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Albright W. F. William Foxwell.
The Archaeology of Palestine: A Survey of the Ancient Peoples and Cultures of the Holy Land.
Harmondsworth Penguin 1951. 12mo. Pp. 271. Map frontispiece. Plus 30 heliogravure plates bound in. With 63 illustrations to the text. Index. Original printed wrappers. In a very good condition. Old signature. ~ With very nice gravures. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1951. unknown
Bookseller reference : 1073
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Albright Joseph ;Kunstel Marcia
Their Promised Land: Arab and Jew in History's Cauldron: One Valley in the Jerusalem Hills
New York New York U.S.A.: Crown Publishers Inc. 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition. First Printing per complete number line including the number one. Blue boards with black spine cloth and gold lettering in very good condition. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Endpapers contain geneology of The Hamdan Family and The Levy Family. DJ very good with only gentle shelf & edge wear and rubbing from boards underneath where board cloth seams with spine cloth. Not price clipped. Crown Publishers, Inc. hardcover
Bookseller reference : M000556 ISBN : 0517572311 9780517572313
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Albright, William Foxwell.
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PALESTINE AND THE BIBLE.
250 p. 8vo. Rebound in plain red cloth binding. Hardbound. Third edition. The Richards Lectures delivered at the University of Virginia. HOLYLAND BOX 2
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Album Stephen
Marsden's Numismata Orientalia Illustrata : A Guide to Islamic and Oriental Coins with Values
Ridgefield CT U.S.A.: Attic Books Limited 1977. Publisher: Attic Books Limited 1977 V.Good HB ISBN: 0-915018-16-0. Hard Cover. Very Good. Attic Books Limited Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008414 ISBN : 0915018160 9780915018161
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Alexandre MORET
Au temps des pharaons
Armand Colin | Paris 1908 | 11.50 x 18.50 cm | relié
Bookseller reference : 47967
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ALEM, Jean-Pierre
Juifs et Arabes 3000 ans d'histoire.
Ed. Grasset, 1968, un volume in 8 broche, 383 pages, carte, notes, bibliographie. Bon état.
Bookseller reference : 6458
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Alexis de VALON
La Turquie sous Abdul Medjid. Extrait de la Revue des Deux Mondes
Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes | s. l. [Paris] 1844 | 15.50 x 25 cm | agrafé
Bookseller reference : 15604
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Alec Waugh.
The Mule on the Minaret: A Novel About the Middle East.
New York NY Farrar Straus & Giroux 1965. Hardcover First Ed USA 1965 First Printing. First Ed USA 1965 First Printing. Near Fine in Very Good DJ: Book shows very slight spine lean; tinting at top edge a bit faded; very faintly thumbed at fore-edge. Dustwrapper shows light wear to extremities; mild rubbing and faint soiling; mylar-protected. Binding secure; text clean. No longer 'As New' but remains a very handsome copy. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 506pp. Hardback with DJ. Farrar Straus & Giroux, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 11718 ISBN : 0374215960 9780374215965
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ALESSANDRO BONGIOANNI
LUXOR E LA VALLE DEI RE
COME NUOVO
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Alessandro, Giuseppe d', duca di Pescolanciano.
Pietra paragone de' cavalieri, [...] divisa in cinque libri. Naples, Domenico-Antonio Parrino, 1711.
Folio (332 x 218 mm). With engraved frontispiece, portrait of the author, and 140 engravings, all but one full-page. Contemporary full vellum with manuscript lettering to spine. First edition of this rare Italian riding school, covering all aspects of horse breeding, training and care, lavishly illustrated with 140 engravings. A second, enlarged edition, also apparently rare, was published in 1723 under the title "Opera". The work is divided into five parts: the first, "Regole di cavalcare" with one plate; the second, "[...] ove si tratta del difficilissimo mestiere dell' imbrigliare"; the third, "[...] dell' istesso", with 95 illustrations of bits, etc.; the fourth, "Disegni de' circoli" with 10 diagrams and "Ritratti d'uomini illustri" with 27 portraits, about half of which show mounted figures; the fifth, "[...] intorno alla preservativa, conservatione, e medicina per cavalli" with 7 plates, also including other animals (such as a rhinoceros). - Errata leaf at beginning, some leaves browned or spotted. No copy in auction records of the last decades. Huth p. 28. Brunet I, 159. Graesse I, 68.
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Alexander Wilhelm.
Die Gesellschaftsreise nach Palästina im Jahre 5670 - 1910.
Sátoraljaújhely W. Alexander 1910. Small octavo. Pp. 288. Portrait frontispiece and another plate. Some text ornaments. List of participants. Hardcover bound in the original publisher's grained crimson cloth small plate of Jerusalem mounted on upper cover black lettering floral endpapers apparently lacking free endpaper cloth bit faded and marked slight wear at spine ends. Bit shaken opens stiff but nevertheless a lovely copy. ~ The travelogue of Wilhelm Alexander describes the pilgrimage in 1910 of 68 Jews predominantly Hungarian from Budapest to Palestine. They first travelled to Triest where they embarked on the "Elektra" sailing to Alexandria. From Alexandria via Cairo and Port Said they arrived at Jaffa. Alexander's report is a remarkable account. It combines his critical sometime painful observations detailed descriptions of meetings with the local community and dignitaries with a travelogues of pilgrimages to the holy places interweaved with prayers and words of praise which he brings in Hebrew. Very rare. OCLC locates copies in University of Amsterdam Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Jewish National & University Library Jewish Theological Seminary New York Public Library and University of Pennsylvania only. Sátoraljaújhely, W. Alexander, 1910. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3690
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ALEXANDER David - KEELEY Robin -
Fotoguida della Bibbia.
Bologna, Dehoniane, 1983, 8vo (cm. 24,5 x 18) cartonato con copertina illustrata a colori, pp. 285 completamente illustrato da fotografie e tavole fotografiche a colori (di David Alexander) molte a pagina doppia. Firma di possesso.
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Alfred Edmund BREHM - Johannes DUMICHEN - Charles WERNER
Le Nil
A. Lévy | Paris 1882 | 28 x 37 cm | reliure de l'éditeur
Bookseller reference : 44882
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Alfred Bonne
State And Economics In The Middle East
<p>Hardback 427 pages tight binding most pages clean some pages with stains & spots cover with some wear. Spots on side top & bottom.</p> Kegan Paul hardcover
Bookseller reference : 816
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ALGARDI ZAHRA SIRIA.
Il petrolio sulla via di Damasco. Prefazione di Vittorio Gorresio.
In 8°, br. edit. con sovrac. ill. (minime tracce d'uso e piccolo strappo), pp. (XX),343,(1), con num. fot. b.n. in tavv. f.t.; coll. "Testimonianze del tempo. Volume LXVII"; prima ed., nel complesso esemplare molto buono, intonso. (x035)
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Alghatam Mohammed JK. Dr. and Galal Mohamed Noman Dr. J. K.
Arab and Muslim Issues in a Changing World Second Edition
Bahrain Centre for Studies & Research Scientific Publications Bahrain 2007. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 4 210 pages preface and introduction by author's and select bibliography. Illustrated card cover with white and red titles to the front panel and green titles to the backstrip. In this book the authors who go to great pains to say that the ideas expressed within the book ideas and theirs alone deal with what they think is the important issues facing the Arab/Muslim world. They are ". terrorism and Islam distortion of Islamic image while and its role in the world economy and cultural and political changes in the middle east." -- from the rear panel blurb and more importantly an Arab view all of these issues. Creasing to the book corners and a little rubbing to the book panels. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture s. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Politics & Government ; Middle East ; Religion -- Islam; Inventory No: 0111461. . Bahrain Centre for Studies & Research Scientific Publications paperback
Bookseller reference : 0111461
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Ali Tariq
The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades Jihads and Modernity
U.S.A.: Verso. 2003 Tariq Ali puts the events of September 11 into sweeping historical perspective as he dissects both Islamic and Western fundamentalism. The aerial attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center a global spectacle of unprecedented dimensions generated an enormous volume of commentary. The inviolability of the American mainland breached for the first time since 1812 led to extravagant proclamations by the pundits. It was a new world-historical turning point. The 21st century once greeted triumphantly as marking the dawn of a worldwide neo-liberal civilization suddenly became menaced. The choice presented from the White House and its supporters was to stand shoulder-to-shoulder against terrorism or be damned. Tariq Ali challenges these assumptions arguing instead that what we have experienced is the return of History in a horrific form with religious symbols playing a part on both sides: Allahs revenge God is on Our Side and God Bless America. The visible violence of September 11 was the response to the invisible violence that has been inflicted on countries like Afghanistan Pakistan Iraq Saudi Arabia Egypt Palestine and Chechnya. Some of this has been the direct responsibility of the United States and Russia. In this wide-ranging book that provides an explanation for both the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and new forms of Western colonialism Tariq Ali argues that many of the values proclaimed by the Enlightenment retain their relevance while portrayals of the American Empire as a new emancipatory project are misguided. First Pbk.Ed. Softcover. Very Good. Verso. unknown
Bookseller reference : 27916 ISBN : 185984457X 9781859844571
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Ali Tariq
The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades Jihads and Modernity
New York New York U.S.A.: Verso Books 2003. clean unmarked copy. Paperback. Fine. Verso Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : 354144 ISBN : 185984457X 9781859844571
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Ali Tariq
The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades Jihads and Modernity
London & New York: Verso 2002. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red boards white cloth spine with red foil titles x 342 pp footnotes index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. History of Islam and American relations with the Islamic world from a leftist Pakistani author. From the prologue: "To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence." Shipping weight 2 lbs. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 21 X 15� cm. Verso Hardcover
Bookseller reference : HIME00018 ISBN : 1859846793 9781859846797
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Ali A. Allawi
The Crisis of Islamic Civilization -
Yale Univ Pr 2009. Gd. condition - The imperial expansion of the West into Muslim lands and the blast of modernity that accompanied it . J89021z. Hard Cover. Good. Yale Univ Pr Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 9021z
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Ali Abunimah
The Battle for Justice in Palestine
Haymarket Books 2014. Minimal marking/notes to text. Binding is tight and secure. Ships today or next business day. Our books are carefully described and packaged in boxes not envelopes. A gift card and personalized message can be included upon request. . Trade Paperback. Good. Haymarket Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : 224662 ISBN : 1608463249 9781608463244
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Ali Akbar Khitai.
[Ketay-Nama]. Tercüme-i târih-i nevâdir-i Çin Mâçîn [Translation of the rare history and descriptions of China]. Istanbul, Tophâne-i Âmire Litografya Destigâhi, [1854 CE =] 1270 H.
8vo (145 x 215 mm). 70 pp. In Ottoman script within rules, lithographed throughout. The heading (serlevha) and borders of the first double page are printed in gilt. Bound in contemporary wrappers, taken from a volume, and stored loosely within protective giltstamped cloth boards (modern spine). First and only printed edition of one of the earliest Islamic travel accounts of China and the first description of the Silk Road in the Islamic world, pre-dating even Ibn Battuta's Rihla. - The present work, one of the most complete descriptions of Ming Dynasty China in the 16th century, was originally written in Persian in 1516. Completed and issued soon after Khitai reached Istanbul in 1520, it was later translated into Turkish by Hezârfen Huseyin (d. 1691) and became influential also in the Turkish-speaking Muslim world. According to the colophon, the book was finished on the last day or days of Rabî I 922 (3 May 1516), while the preface contains a panegyric on Suleiman the Magnificent (ruled 1520-66). - Based on the author's personal observations, the book's 20 chapters discuss roads, cities and castles, stores, brothels and prostitutes, eunuchs, legislation, administration, jails, law and law-abidance, the military, agriculture, magazines, the imperial throne, the various religions, celebrations, entertainments, wonderful arts and strange cures, schools, persons from the West, Qalmaqs, gold, silver and currency, as well as Chinese temples and other matters. Thus Ali Akbar's book conveyed to a reader of the 16th century a fair impression of China: as a guidebook it could serve as a companion especially for Muslim merchants travelling along the Silk Road. - The Chinese scholar Lin Yih-Min describes Ali Akbar as a "Turkish businessman" (58) who probably journeyed only to Central Asia, where he gathered the information for his book before returning then to Turkey. The book was dedicated to Sultan Suleiman, and as the author's name suggests a Shi'ite background, it is possible that Ali Akbar may have wished to impress on the Ottoman court the difficult conditions of the Shi'ite community living in Istanbul, among a dominant Sunnite community. - Also known as the "Khataynameh" ("Book on China"), the work aroused considerable interest not only in the Ottoman Empire but also in Europe in the 19th century. The book's immediate impact is difficult to estimate, but astonishingly the Ottoman Empire, here referred to as "Lumi", would figure quite prominently in Chinese sources after a first embassy arrived in Beijing in 1524, four years after the book was first issued; other embassies followed until 1618. Thus, it is entirely possible that Ali Akbar's book had a direct influence on Ottoman diplomacy and commerce in China and Central Asia. - A few holes in the last leaf (minor loss of a few letters); some browning. A few contemporary pencil marginalia and calligraphic examples on the last blank page. Overall a good copy. Özege 20686. Cf. Ralph Kauz, "One of the Last Documents of the Silk Road: The Khataynameh of Ali Akbar", The Silk Road 1 (2005), p. 59f. Lin Yih-Min, "A comparative and critical study of Ali Akbar’s Khitây-nâma with reference to Chinese sources", Central Asiatic Journal 27 (1983), pp. 58-78.
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Ali Effendi.
Specimen of Arabic calligraphy presented to Catherine Hutton, with added notes in her hand. [England, 1826-1829].
Single sheet of wove paper folded once to form two leaves (243 x 195 mm). Arabic calligraphy and English inscription on polished oriental paper, window-mounted vertically on first leaf, text in Hutton's hand written vertically on first leaf and continued horizontally on second. A specimen of Arabic calligraphy by an Egyptian Turk named Ali Effendi, inscribed in English in Effendi's hand "To Mrs Catherine Hutton", with the note "Madam when I am Ali Bey I shall be glad to see you in Egypt. I am yours [sic] sincere friend Ali Effendi". Catherine Hutton's accompanying notes, dated 1826 and 1829, state that Effendi "is a young, handsome, clever Egyptian-Turk, who had been sent to England by his beloved 'Grand Pasha' to learn our language, manners &c, and transport them to Cairo. His proficiency in writing English is seen in the following autograph, the English part of which he wrote for me". Hutton further notes that Effendi "was fond of the theatre, and spoke with rapture of the beautiful actresses. He looked upon English horsemanship with the utmost contempt. Stooping forward, and hanging down his head, he said 'Your men ride like this'. Then, rising to his accustomed height, he added, 'I throw my jereed on full gallop, and stop the moment when I should touch the wall'. Ali Effendi drank wine like an infidel". Hutton mentions three of Ali Effendi's companions: Mohamed Effendi, "who is studying naval architecture", Selim Aga, "who is studying mathematics and military engineering", and Omar Effendi, "who is qualifying himself for diplomacy". That all four men spent some years in England is confirmed by The Nautical Magazine for 1832, which adds that they were aged between 22 and 25 years of age and that they arrived in 1826. From an early age the novelist Catherine Hutton (1756-1846) was a keen letter-writer. "The Coltman family of Leicester and Mrs Andre of Enfield, Middlesex, were lifelong correspondents. She also wrote to her cousin the mathematician Charles Hutton (1737-1823), Sarah Harriet Burney (Fanny Burney's half-sister), the radical author Sir Richard Phillips, Eliza Cook, and, latterly, Edward Bulwer Lytton, and Charles Dickens. Her letters are full of anecdotes and shrewd observations on her acquaintances and are seasoned with a self-deprecating wit, their direct address and dry cheerfulness recalling the epistolary style of Jane Austen. Hutton delighted in Austen's novels, and believed that 'her character is either something like mine, or what I would wish mine to be'. In an account of her occupations written in July 1844, Catherine Hutton described some of the other activities which absorbed her: needlework, including 'patchwork beyond all calculation'; pastry and confectionery; collecting prints of costumes in eight large volumes; and collecting more than 2000 autographs. Bridget Hill rightly concludes that her life 'illustrates the particular problems of the educated, intelligent, single daughter of the middle class' in late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain' (Oxford DNB). - In very good condition.
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Ali ibn Abi Talib / Stickel, Johann Gustav (ed.).
[Amtal `Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib]. Sententiae Ali Ben Abi Taleb, arabice et persice, e codice manuscripto vimariensi. Jena, Cröcker, 1834.
4to. XV, (5), 80 pp. Modern red half cloth with giltstamped title to spine. The sayings of Ali ibn Abi Talib, cousin and son-in-law of the prophet Muhammad and one of the central figures in Shia Islam, who ruled as the fourth caliph from 656 to 661. Text in Arabic, Persian, and Latin. Based on a Weimar manuscript, this was an early effort by the German scholar J. G. Stickel (1805-96), a student of Silvestre de Sacy, to establish himself as an oriental philologist at Jena University. - Deaccessioned from the Bamberg University Library with their stamps and shelfmark label. OCLC 4423742.
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Ali ibn al-Abbas al-Majusi.
Kitab Kamil as-Sina'a at-Tabbaiya [The Complete Book of Medical Art]. [Safavid Persia, [1582-1584 CE] = 990-991 H.
4to (180 × 240 mm). Arabic manuscript on cream paper. Two books, each with 10 chapters or Maqalahs, bound in one volume. (614) leaves, lacking one leaf from Book 2 (Maqalah 8, Bab 23) and another leaf from Book 2 (Maqalah 10, Bab 23) replaced in 19th century manuscript facsimile. 21 lines, per extensum, written in black naskh, chapter headings and important sections in red, catchwords throughout, each of the 20 chapters with an index of the ‘bab’ within and each with a separate colophon. Later brown lacquered leather over pasteboards, faintly pressed central medallions to covers, rebacked. One of the few existing complete copies of this medical milestone. Exceptionally rare: a fundamental medical work from the Golden Age of Islamic scholarship, preceding and influencing Avicenna's Qanun. Monumentally influential not only in Islamic medicine, this work even had profound impact in the West. It was first translated into Latin by Constantinus Africanus in the 11th century for use as a primary text at Salerno's medical school, and then again in 1127 by Stephen of Antioch. By the 14th century knowledge of the work was so widespread that Al-Majusi is mentioned as one of antiquity's great medical scholars in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. - The text is divided into two distinct books, each of which comprise ten "maqalas" (sections), subdivided into "babs" (chapters). The first section deals with the theory of medicine, including anatomical structures and they body's physiology; the second examines the practical treatment of medicine, the application of medical treatments and surgery. Indeed, this is the earliest known Arabic medical work to provide detailed instructions on surgical procedure. - Ali ibn al-Abbas al-Majusi was a 10th century Persian physician and psychologist, known in the Latin tradition as "Hali Abbas". Born in Ahvaz in southwest Persia, he was perhaps the most celebrated physician in the Eastern Caliphate of the Buwayhid dynasty, becoming physician royal to Emir 'Abdul al-Daula Fana Khusraw (reigned 949-983). The present treatise was compiled under the patronage of Emir Khusraw and is therefore also known as "Al-Malikiyya" ("The Royal Book"). Emir Khusraw founded a hospital in Shiraz and the al-Adudi Hospital in Baghdad to show his support for medical science, and Al-Majusi probably worked at the latter around 981 CE, where he must have composed this, his chief work. He is thought to have died in either 990 or 1010 CE. - The manuscript was produced for a wealthy and important patron in 16th century Persia, written on fine paper by a single scribe who names himself as Salam'ullah bin Habib'ullah bin Muhammad in colophons at the end of the various sections. Many of these colophons also record the date of their completion, showing that the entire codex took two years to produce. - Complete manuscript copies of this text are exceptionally rare: its vast encyclopedic nature made it an expensive commodity in the Middle Ages, and its sheer size usually necessitated it to span several volumes. The present example appears to have been bound as two separate books at the time of copying before being joined together in a single large volume in the 19th century. - Edges a little scuffed; some very minor marginal staining to a few sections, occasional light mottling. A few outer edges repaired (only affecting the text of two leaves). Overall a very clean and attractive specimen. Provenance: sold at Sotheby’s, Arts of the Islamic World sale, 23 October 2019, lot 119 (described without mention of the facsimile leaves).
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ALI KÖSE, ALI AYTEN.
Türbeler: Popüler dindarligin duraklari.
New English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. Demy 8vo. (21 x 13.5 cm). 328 p. B/w ills. In Turkish. =[Shrines. Destinations of popular devoutness.]. Türbeler: Popüler dindarligin duraklari.
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Ali L. Karaosmanogle
Middle East Turkey And The Atlantic Alliance -
Foreign Policy Institute Publishing - 1987. PB/pub.1987/Gd.condition/203 pages - Discusses the Middle East Turkey and the Atlantic Alliance. TI536049. Soft Cover. Good. Foreign Policy Institute Publishing - Paperback
Bookseller reference : 36049
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ALI MAZAHERÎ.
Ortaçagda müslümanlarin yasayislari. [= La vie quotidienne des musulmans en Moyen Âge]. Translated by Bahriye Üçok.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. 12mo. (16 x 12 cm). In Turkish. 399 p. Ortaçagda müslümanlarin yasayislari. [= La vie quotidienne des musulmans en Moyen Âge]. Translated by Bahriye Üçok.
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ALI RIZA SAGMAN.
Islâm tarihinde Rahip Bahîrâ meselesi.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 32 p. A study on "Sergius the Monk" to the Latin West, was a Syriac or Bahrani Gnostic Manichean Nasorean or Nestorian (or Arian) monk who, according to tradition, foretold to the adolescent Muhammad his future prophetic career. Islâm tarihinde Rahip Bahîrâ meselesi.
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ALI RIZA SAGMAN.
Islâm tarihinde Rahip Bahîrâ meselesi.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 32 p. A study on "Sergius the Monk" to the Latin West, was a Syriac or Bahrani Gnostic Manichean Nasorean or Nestorian (or Arian) monk who, according to tradition, foretold to the adolescent Muhammad his future prophetic career. Islâm tarihinde Rahip Bahîrâ meselesi.
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Ali Sami
Pasargadae: The Oldest Imperial Capital of Iran
Shiraz. Very Good; Covers lightly soiled. 1971. Second Edition. Softcover. Printed wraps. Translated by Rev. R. N. Sharp. Photos. ; 240 pages . paperback
Bookseller reference : 37780
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Ali Sami
Persepolis Takht-I-Jamshid by Ali-Sami
Shiraz 1967. TPB. G. G TRADE-PAPERBACK. COVERS SOMEWHAT WORN AND CREASED . /KEYWORDS/: Fåars Iran--Antiquities--Pictorial works.; Naqsh-e Rajab Iran--Pictorial works.; Naqsh-i Rustam Iran--Pictorial works.; Pasargadae Extinct city--Pictorial works.; Persepolis Iran; Persepolis Iran--Pictorial works.; Shiraz paperback
Bookseller reference : 76796
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