Allah

1960 · 000460 — <p>Book. Very Good. Softcover. First Editions.<br />8vo over 7¾–9¾ inches.<br />A complete scholarly edition of one of the most important primary sources for Mamluk history written by a major medieval scholar who lived and worked in Cairo and Damascus. The text is edited directly from the author's autograph manuscript dated 734 AH making this one of the most authoritative modern editions of a medieval Islamic historical source.<br />Published under the auspices of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Cairo and issued over several decades between 1960 and 1994 in Cairo and Beirut. As issued the first four volumes remain uncut and unopened. All volumes are preserved in their original publisher's wrappers.<br />Each volume contains the Arabic text accompanied by a scholarly German introduction critical apparatus and facsimile plates of the autograph manuscript an exceptional feature for Islamic historiography.<br />Publication Details by Volume:<br />Vol. 9 – Edited by Hans Robert Roemer.<br />Cairo: al-Khanji 1960.<br />502 pp. Arabic; 24 pp. German.<br />One facsimile plate of the autograph manuscript.<br />Vol. 6 – Edited by á¹¢alÄḥ al-DÄ«n al-Munajjid.<br />Cairo: Government Press of Lajnat al-TaʾlÄ«f wa-l-Tarjama 1961.<br />675 pp. Arabic; 13 pp. German.<br />One facsimile plate within the Arabic text.<br />Vol. 8 – Edited by Ulrich Haarmann.<br />Cairo: ʿĪsÄ al-BÄbÄ« al-ḤalabÄ« 1971.<br />497 pp. Arabic; 38 pp. German.<br />One facsimile plate within the Arabic section.<br />Vol. 7 – Edited by SaÊ¿Ä«d Ê¿Abd al-FattÄḥ Ê¿Ä€shÅ«r.<br />Cairo: al-BÄbÄ« al-ḤalabÄ« 1972.<br />454 pp. Arabic; 12 pp. German.<br />Vol. 3 – Edited by Muḥammad al-SaÊ¿Ä«d JamÄl al-DÄ«n.<br />Cairo: al-BÄbÄ« al-ḤalabÄ« 1981.<br />476 pp. Arabic; 6 pp. German.<br />Vol. 1 – Edited by Bernd Radtke.<br />Cairo: al-BÄbÄ« al-ḤalabÄ« 1982.<br />497 pp. Arabic; 30 pp. German.<br />Vol. 5 – Edited by Dorothea Krawulsky.<br />Beirut 1992.<br />504 pp. Arabic; 28 pp. German.<br />Vol. 2 – Edited by Edward Badeen.<br />Beirut 1994.<br />689 pp. Arabic; 32 pp. German.<br />Vol. 4 – Edited by Gunhild Graf and Erika Glassen.<br />Beirut 1994.<br />674 pp. Arabic; 41 pp. German.<br />A cornerstone reference for the study of Mamluk political social and intellectual history produced to the highest standards of 20th-century Orientalist scholarship and rarely encountered complete especially with early volumes unopened and in original wrappers.</p> Deutsches Archaologisches Institut Kairo paperback