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...

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 ...

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...

First english translation directly from arabic. Edward William Lane (1801-1876) was a British Orientalist whose career began as an engraver working...

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...

Early illustrated edition. A rare and early illustrated edition of the Arabian Nights, or the Arabian Nights Entertainments, present here with illu...

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

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...