An attractive Ottoman Qur'an copied during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid I (r. 1774-1789). The concise calligraphy and elegant illumination thro...

A charming prayerbook containing excerpts from the Qur'an, du'a (prayers) and hilya, presented in an attractive portable pocket-sized format. The ...

The Rawzat as-Safa is an epic historical anthology in seven parts, recounting the history of the origins of Islam, early Islamic civilisations and...

The first printed edition of the tragic romantic tale of Leila and Majnun in Ottoman Turkish.First edition in Ottoman Turkish; small 8vo (190 x 14...

Richardson (1740-1795) was one of the leading Orientalists of his time. 'A Specimen of Persian Poetry,' first published in 1774, was his first ma...

An early English translation of the Gulistan (Rose Garden) by the renowned sufi poet Sa'di of Shiraz, often considered one of the singular most im...

Hell and purgatory in Jainism, called Naraka, are realms of cosmology that are characterised by great suffering. There are seven realms of this un...

Shaikh Mohammad ʿAli b. Abi Taleb (1692-1766 AD), known as Hazin Lahiji, was a Persian poet and scholar. He grew up at the Safavid court of Persia...

First and only edition of this Turkish grammar printed in the grounds of the French embassy at Pera, where a printing press was established in 178...

Timurid manuscript illustration. An early miniature painting from one of Nizami Ganjavi's most loved tragic romances in poetic form, Shirin o Farha...

Single leaf from a Safavid album, illuminated miniature on paper depicting a young Prince in discource with a female, two attendants flanking eith...

A Spanish orientalist, Francisco Canes (1720-1795) spent sixteen years devoted to the study of oriental languages in Damascus, where he was sent b...

Exceptionally early and important authorial manuscript on paper - the author's own copy. Al-Sharif al-Radi (970-1015 AD) was a celebrated poet and ...

Examples of Datia ragamala paintings are rare. A few examples from the same series, also identified as being from Datia, are in the Paul Walter co...

First printed edition of The Gulistan. The single most important publication for Western studies in Persian language and history in the seventeenth...

Portraits of the Turkish emperors from the series Recueil des Portraits des Empereurs Ottomans.This is the first edition, first issue of the plate...

Single volume, printed on paper, in Arabic, 230 x 155 mm; text printed in single column, 13 lines black naskh script, opening and closing double-[...