3 volumes, octavo. Original variously coloured printed wrappers. With line drawings, maps, and illustrations from photographs. University compliments slip laid in to vol. 1 and 3. Ex-Orientalisches Seminar der Universität Tübingen copies with labels to spine tails, occasional stamps internally, including withdrawal (“ausgeschieden”) stamps. Spines toned, general signs of handling otherwise a very good set of a vulnerable publication. £3,750 [159402] 63 ROSENMÜLLER, Ernst Friedrich. Analecta Arabica. Leipzig: Johan Ambrosius Barth, 1825–28 First and only Arabic and Latin text edition of this pioneering effort to make the texts of important Arabic manuscripts available to scholars and to open them to a wider readership with Latin translations and scholarly notes. It comprises three interesting and varied Arabic manuscripts, each with prefatory material in Latin and the first two parts also have an extensive Arabic-Latin glossary. Rosenmüller (1768–1835), the son of an evangelical theologian, became a professor at the University of Leipzig, firstly in Arabic, 1796, and subsequently in oriental languages from 1813. The three parts are: “Institutiones juris Mohammedani circa bellum contra eos qui ab islamo sunt alieni. E duobus al-Codurii codicibus”, which presents a selection of extracts from the Mukhtasar of al-Quduri, a legal epitome composed 973–1037 by a leading Sunni fakih and jurist of the Hanafi school, discussing the legal ramifications of Islamic war against infidels; “Zohairi Carmen al- moallakah appellatum. Cum scholiis Zuzenii integris et Nachasi selectis e codicibus manuscriptis” offers a translation with scholia of the Moallaka of Ka’b ibn Zuhair, pre-Islamic poet; and “Syria descripta a Scherifo el-Edrisio et Khalil ben-Schahin Dhaheri. E codicibus Bodleianis” an extract from al-Idrisi’s universal geography of those parts discussing Syria. Octavo (222 × 150 mm). Rebound to style in half sheep, marbled sides, plain spine, five compartments formed by triple gilt fillet, red morocco label in the second. Highly elaborate Arabic titles to parts II and III in red and black, decoration built up of typographic elements, Arabic text within red panel, each part of the Latin text with separate series and section titles. Narrow worm-track to the outer margin of the first four leaves, skilfully repaired, occasional light browning to contents, largely marginal. A very good copy. £1,750 [92362]
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Octavo. Original yellow boards, spine and front board blocked and lettered in red and blue. With dust jacket. With black and white and coloured photographic plates throughout, and stylized maps and diagrams to rear of contents. Contemporary Christmas gift inscription to front free endpaper. A very good copy, boards slightly soiled, top edge toned, small mark to front endpapers, contents and plates bright and sharp, in like dust jacket, chips to head of spine, extremities rubbed and nicked, two small closed tears, the attractive front panel bright and presenting well. £1,500 [159274] 62 RIYADH UNIVERSITY. Majallat Kulliyat al-Adab Jamiat al-Riyad (Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts), vols. I–III. Consecutive run of the initial three volumes of this bulletin prepared, produced, and published by Riyadh University, the Kingdom’s first, inaugurated in 1957. It is rare: an online institutional search shows just five locations and a scattering of odd volumes worldwide, with the only substantial sequence held at SOAS, who have volumes 1–14 (1970–84). Known today as King Saud University, it was established, in Prince Fahd’s words, to: “disseminate and promote knowledge in Our Kingdom for widening the base of scientific and literary study, and for keeping abreast with other nations in the arts and sciences and for contributing with them discovery and invention, in addition to reviving Islamic civilisation and articulate its benefits and glories, along with its ambitions to nurture the young virtuously and to guarantee their healthy minds and ethics”. Unsurprisingly, the primary focus is on Saudi Arabia: its historic boundaries (of Hijaz, as seen by Arab geographers), historic relations, archaeology and history, politics, literature, philosophy, linguistics, physical geography, architecture, urban development (Jeddah) and the impact of oil revenues and the hajj on domestic transport. Articles on the wider region include Oman, Ottoman attitudes to Jewish migration into Palestine, and the Abbasids. Riyadh: University of Riyadh, 1970–73 saudi arabia’s first university
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