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Rare Sub-Saharan Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00| /Stylised Arabic calligraphy. Rare example of a bound manuscript Qur'an copied and produced in Sub-Saharan Africa, likely Harrar in Ethiopia, where ...
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The Mawaqif and Mukhatabat,
AL-NIFFARI, Muhammad Ibn Abdi'l Jabbar; ARBERRY, Arthur John (editor).Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /An important publication in dual English and Arabic text of the Kitab al-Mawaqif and the Kitab al-Mukhatabat, with introductory notes on the autho...
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The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainmants.
LANE, Edward William (translator).Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /First english translation directly from arabic. Edward William Lane (1801-1876) was a British Orientalist whose career began as an engraver working...
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'Ilmu hal. A manual of the doctrine & practice of Islam.
[ISLAM].Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /Islam in cyprus. Claude Delaval Cobham (1842-1915) was a historian and well known bibliographer of Cyprus, as well as one of the founding members o...
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The Names of Allah,
[ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT].Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /After ahmed karahisari. Ahmed Karahisari was one of the great Ottoman calligraphers of the sixteenth century, whose naskh style was reminiscent of ...
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The Alcoran of Mahomet,
DU RYER, André; ROSS, Alexander (translator).Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00| /The first English translation of the Qur'an.This is the second edition of Alexander Ross's Qur'an in English, translated by Ross from a French tra...
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Leaf from a Mamluk Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00| /Leaf from a large and impressive Mamluk Qur'an, most likely produced in Egypt in the mid-fourteenth century.Single leaf, illuminated manuscript on...
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Section from a Qur'an in Maghribi script,
[QUR'AN].Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00| /On western laid paper. The watermarks present in this volume are consistent with an example presented by both Briquet (13200) and Heawood (2171), d...
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The Arabian Nights.
[ARABIAN NIGHTS].Original price £1,200.00 - Original price £1,200.00Original price £0.00£1,200.00£1,200.00 - £1,200.00Current price £1,200.00| /Early illustrated edition. A rare and early illustrated edition of the Arabian Nights, or the Arabian Nights Entertainments, present here with illu...
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Jami'e Sahih al-Bukhari,
AL-BUKHARI, Muhammad ibn Isma'il, known as 'Imam al-Bukhari'.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00| /Important Sunni Hadith. Imam al-Bukhari's Sahih al-Bukhari is considered one of the most comprehensive and authentic collections of Hadith in Sunni...
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Vajradhatumandala Mudras and Caryagttakosa,
[THYASAPHU MANUSCRIPT].Original price £18,750.00 - Original price £18,750.00Original price £0.00£18,750.00£18,750.00 - £18,750.00Current price £18,750.00| /Buddhist mudras. The Sanskrit word mudras means 'mark' or 'gesture' and in the context of Buddhism, mudras are sacred symbolic hand gestures or pos...
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Rare Kashmiri Teaching Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].Original price £30,000.00 - Original price £30,000.00Original price £0.00£30,000.00£30,000.00 - £30,000.00Current price £30,000.00| /Signed Indian binding. Rare example of a north Indian teaching Qur'an in a contemporary signed binding. In most cases, teaching Qur'ans are plain i...
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The Library of A. Chester Beatty,
ARNOLD, Thomas W. and J. V. S. Wilkinsons (eds)Original price £2,950.00 - Original price £2,950.00Original price £0.00£2,950.00£2,950.00 - £2,950.00Current price £2,950.00| /A finely illustrated publication detailing the collection of Indian miniatures of Alfred Beatty (1875-1968), a copper mining tycoon who built up o...
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Tarikh-e vaqaye' va savaneh-e Afghanistan, History of Events and Incidents in Afghanistan,
PRINCE IHTIZAD AL-SULTANEH [ALI QULI KHAN].Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00| /An intriguing historical treatise on Afghanistan compiled during the reign of Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar which includes a dedication to the Prime min...
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An illustrated folio from the Shahnameh,
FERDOWSI, Abdul Qasim.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00| /Early Shahnameh leaf. Early example of one of the most celebrated texts in persian culture; of great literary importance to the preservation of the...
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Important Indian Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00| /Rare Deccani Qur'an. Important Deccani Qur'an copied in a manner reminiscent of Qur'ans produced under Sultanate India.This is a charming and impor...
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Dua Alawi Misri,
[PRAYERBOOK].Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /A very attractive Shi'a prayerbook from Safavid Persia, possibly from Shiraz, containing du'a Alawi Misri in praise of the twelfth Imam Muhammad M...
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A fine Ottoman Qur'an,
[QUR'AN].Original price £35,000.00 - Original price £35,000.00Original price £0.00£35,000.00£35,000.00 - £35,000.00Current price £35,000.00| /Exquisite illumination by a named artist. A beautifully illuminated Qur'an, signed in the colophon with the name of the 'tadhhibuh' (illuminator) R...
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Selections from the Kur-an,
LANE, Edward William.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /Early and authentic translation. Edward William Lane (1801-1876) was a British Orientalist and very keen Egyptologist whose life had been dedicated...
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Çay Risâlesi [The book of tea].
IZZET, Seyyed Mehmed [Çayci].Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /The first book on tea printed in Ottoman Turkish. First edition of the first printed book on tea in Ottoman Turkish. Seyyed Mehmed Izzet (1819-1909...
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