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international context of decolonization and conflict across the Arab world brought a need for a sense of optimism and progress. The new-found wealth and development of the 1960s posited Saudi Arabia as one of the leading lights of the postcolonial Middle East. Octavo. Original dark red leatherette boards, not lettered. With dust jacket. With 16 plates of half-tone photographs. “16” inscribed in ink to front free endpaper. Spine ends very lightly rubbed, top edge lightly toned and foxed, a very good copy indeed, in a rubbed dust jacket, extremities worn, a very good example. £2,250 [154013] 23 GRIFFITHS, V. L., & Abdel Rahman Ali Taha. Sudan Courtesy Customs. [Khartoum]: The Sudan Government, 1936 First edition, first impression, of this charming and practical phrase book from the Sudan Education Department, containing “some of the commoner and safer phrases for most of the situations likely to arise in which one wants to say the right thing” (p. vii). This copy has a strong regional provenance, with the ownership inscription of Paul Philip Howell, a district commissioner in British Sudan. Small octavo. Original blue cloth, neatly rebacked with original gilt-lettered spine relined and laid down. Spine sunned, tips lightly worn, boards marked, minor offsetting and foxing to preliminary and end matter. A very good copy. ¶ Achol Deng, “Obituary: Paul Philip Howell, D.Phil, C.B.E., O.B.E.”, The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology , vol. 17, no. 1, 1994, pp. 69–71. £700 [158974] 24 HURGRONJE, Christiaan Snouck, & Richard J. H. Gottheil. The Holy War “Made in Germany”. New York & London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1915 Uncommon first appearance in English, and first book publication, of Hurgronje’s essay accusing German orientalists of undermining the modernization of Islam and the declaration of a
“mediaevalist” Jihad. It was first published in the Dutch periodical De Gids (“The Guide”) in January 1915, with a foreword by Richard Gottheil of Columbia University who commissioned Prof. Joseph Gillet of the University of Wisconsin to undertake the translation. Hurgronje, declaring his horror at the unfolding conflict, argues that Germany was behind the Ottoman declaration of Jihad in November 1914. Analysing the origin and history of Jihad, the Caliphate, and Ottoman rule, he argues that “The holy war of Islam is . . . a thoroughly mediaeval institution, which even the Mohammedan world was outgrowing” (p. 80). He identifies the spread of Pan-Islamism by new means as a threat to colonialism and critiques recent pamphlets by German orientalists calling for Holy War, in particular those by his friend and colleague, Carl Heinrich Becker, a student of Weber, proponent of a modern sociological approach to Islamic studies, and founder in 1910 of Der Islam , an academic journal on the culture and history of the Middle East. This provoked heated debate with the Germans who felt misunderstood and betrayed, with Becker replying in a subsequent edition of De Gids . During the debate, Gottheil, “a famous semiticist and Zionist activist” (Buskens), published this English version without Hurgronje’s permission. Octavo. Original dark green vertical-ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and front board. Just a little rubbed at extremities, gilt dulled on spine but bright on front board, light toning to text. Provenance: previous owners’ names inked to the front free endpaper: Les Janka, who served as a high- level US government expert on Middle East affairs, special assistant to Kissinger on the National Security Council, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Near Eastern and African affairs, and founded the Council for American-Saudi Dialogue; on the front pastedown that of Samuel Haig Jameson who was professor of sociology, University of Oregon, director of research in the California Intelligence Bureau, and lecturer in criminology at the University of Southern California. ¶ Léon Buskens, “Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, ‘Holy War’ and Colonial Concerns”, Jihad and Islam in World War I: Studies on the Ottoman Jihad on the Centenary of Snouck Hurgronje’s “Holy war made in Germany”, 2016. £2,000 [159497]
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