First edition burton arabian nights. First edition of Burton's magnum opus, The Arabian Nights. Richard Burton was an accomplished geographer, expl...

Earliest most complete english translation. A scarce run of a classic work, printed in Scotland.The first Western translation of the Arabian Nights...

Fine ottoman binding. A very attractive manuscript containing the much-loved tale of the medieval tragic romance often entitled 'Leila wa Majnun'; ...

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...

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...

Sunni hadith printed in Calcutta. Mishkat al-Masabih is an important and extensive collection of about 6000 hadith, compiled by Imam Khatib at-Tabr...

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

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

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

Exceptionally rare printing of a lecture given by Sushila Devi, a Hindu humanitarian and advocate for female education in India, describing her ex...

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...

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

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

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

First english translation. The first English translation of this poem by Jami and first translation from Persian by Edward Fitzgerald. Salámán and ...

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...

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...

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...