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  • Bilingual Coptic-Arabic Psalter,

    [PSALTER].
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    From the monastery of saint anthony. This volume bears witness to a very specific monastery in Egypt known as the Monastery of Saint Anthony, in th...

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  • Al-Juz' Al-Thani min Kitab al-Iktifa' fi Fada'il...,

    AL-MATUFI, Ibrahim bin Abd'ullah Al-Wasabi.
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    An authentic Emarati manuscript. A very rare manuscript described in the colophon as being copied in the 'Al-Wasl' area in the western provinces of...

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  • Divan,

    HAFEZ SHIRAZI. SA'DI SHIRAZI.
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    Notably early Hafez manuscript. Hafez Shirazi (1315-1390 AD) is considered one of the greatest of the Persian Poets, whose immensely popular poetry...

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  • A Monumental Indian Shahnameh,

    FERDOWSI, Abdul Qasim.
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    A monumental Indian Shahnameh with 17 large scale miniatures in the textThis Shahnameh presents a rare example of early eighteenth century manuscr...

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  • Yusuf wa Zuleikha,

    JAMI, Abdul Rahman.
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    Copied only 23 years after the author's death. An exceptionally early manuscript example of the well-known medieval Islamic allegorical love story ...

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  • Varidat-i Mensure we Divan,

    AL-JALWATI, Al-Sayyid Hashim Mustafa Al-Uskudari.
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    Sufi poetry by a follower of the celveti order. Sayyid Hashim Mustafa al-Uskudari al-Jalwati (Hashim Mustafa Uskudari), known as Hashim Baba, was a...

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  • Silsilename,

    [GENEALOGICAL SCROLL].
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    Silsilname are geneaological manuscripts, often presented in scroll format, that were popular during the Ottoman Empire where they served as a too...

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  • Mihr o Mushtari [The Sun and Jupiter].

    TABRIZI, Muhammad 'Assar.
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    With two illuminated miniatures. Sheikh Shams al-Din Muhammad 'Assar Tabrizi was a poet, scholar and mystic of fourteenth-century Persia, and this ...

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  • Majma' al-Tawarikh,

    HAFEZ'I ABRU.
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    Timurid illustrations of Chinese Emperors. These leaves originate from the famous illustrated copy of Hafiz-i Abru's Majma al-Tawarikh ('Universal ...

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  • Salman and Absal:

    JAMI.; FITZGERALD, Edward (translator).
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    First english translation. The first English translation of this poem by Jami and first translation from Persian by Edward Fitzgerald. Salámán and ...

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  • Divan,

    DAGH DELHAVI.
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    Urdu poetry. A volume comprising the works of two of the most important Urdu literary poets Dag Delhavi and Mir Hassan, lithographed in 1915.Two vo...

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  • Tuhfat al-Salawat.

    KASHIFI, Husayn Kamal Al-Din.
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    Inscribed by the author. Kamal al-Din Husayn al-Kashifi was a well known Persian writer on mysticism and preacher who died in Herat in 910 AH (1504...

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  • The Mawaqif and Mukhatabat,

    AL-NIFFARI, Muhammad Ibn Abdi'l Jabbar; ARBERRY, Arthur John (editor).
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    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).
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    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].
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    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 Arabian Nights.

    [ARABIAN NIGHTS].
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    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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  • Selections from the Alif Laylah for the High Proficiency Examination in Arabic for Officers in the Military and Civil Services.

    JARRETT, Henry Sullivan (editor).
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    Arabian Nights printed for officers in the British Indian Army. Henry Sullivan Jarrett (1839-1919) was a British Colonial officer in India. Born in...

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  • Çay Risâlesi [The book of tea].

    IZZET, Seyyed Mehmed [Çayci].
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    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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