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"La Religion des Mahometans, Exposee par leurs propres Docteurs, avec des Eclaircissemens Sur les Opinions qu'on leur a faussement attribuees..."
"La Religion des Mahometans, Exposee par leurs propres Docteurs, avec des Eclaircissemens Sur lesOpinions qu'on leur a faussement attribuees..."
Translated by Adrien Reland (1676 - 1718) from Latin. Reland was one of the early Orientalists. He was appointed professor of philosophy at the University of Harderwijk in 1699. From 1701 onward he was professor of Oriental languages at the University of Utrecht. Reland was acclaimed for his painstaking studies of Islam and linguistic research. He traced the eastward extension of Malay-like languages into the western Pacific.
The book was published in the French language by Isaac Vaillant. Den Haag, 1721.
This is the second edition (first edition: 1705). Octavo (klein-oktav) 16.8 x 10.4 cm (6.6 x 4.1"). 317 pages.
Frontispiece with title. Copper engraving (allegoric) followed by title page , partially in red ink print. Then follows a dedication to the authors brother Pierre an attorney in Amsterdam. Now follows a Foreword of the author, in which he, at length, describes the life of Mohammed and the consequential becoming of Islam. This book is not a Koran. Reland rather e x p l a i n s the Islamic belief (theology) in general and in particular, Islamic rites and prayers and the Koran as the word of Allah to non-Moslems.
This is a serious study of Islam by a distinguished Orientalis scholar and author.
Aside from the mentioned full page frontispiece copper etching there the following copper etchings bound with the book:
- Page 25: Geneology of Mohammed (fold-out)
- Page 49: Postures of prayer (example of Turcs) fold-out
- Page 64: The Kaaba in Mecca (fold-out)
- Page 65: No title. Medina? full page, but not a fold-out.
The book is calf-leather bound (original binding). Title in hand writing on back. Pages including the engravings are clean. Practically no traces of age and use except a little spotting on binding. The book covers are slightly open.
$ 860.00
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