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By: Al Ghazali and Watt, W Montgomery
Price: £4.50
Publisher: Oneworld: 2000
Seller ID: 16634
Translated and with an Introduction by W Montgomery Watt. 176pp, illustrated softback covers. A very clean, tight, copy. The spiritual autobiography, and thoughts on the right conduct of life, of one of Islam's most influential early theologians and Sufi mystic who lived fron 1058 - 1111. View more info
By: Aryanpour, Amiraschraf and Sang, Asa and Mortazawi, Hadi and Aryanpour, Semira
Price: £18.50
Publisher: Kamangir Verlag: 1992
Seller ID: 16659
A German- Persian dictionary. A very heavy book of 1244pp, so heavy that the spine has cracked in two places and been repaired with tape. Dustjacket with a little wear to the edges. One page corner has been miscut by the printer, leading to a little loss, but othewise the book is complete and internally clean. Includes the loose leaf supplement. A suitable 'working copy' only of a rare book. View more info
By: Bashiri, Iraj
Price: £14.50
Publisher: Burgess Publishing Company: 1972
Seller ID: 16636
Large format. 111pp, soft covers with a little wear to the spine. Internally clean and tight. Pronuncing and writing Persian - the sounds, the writing system, the alphabet etc. View more info
By: Boyce, Mary
Price: £138.50
Publisher: Oxford: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16572
284pp, complete illustrated dustjacket with a very little wear to the top corners. B + w photographs. A clean copy. An account of a year spent by the author in the Zoroastrian village of Sharifabad in Iran. A unique study of Zoroastrian life. View more info
By: Boyle, J A (ed)
Price: £72.00
Publisher: Cambridge: 1968
Seller ID: 16685
A heavy book of 763p. Complete dustjacket, a little worn to the edges of the spine. B + w illustrations. Internally very clean. This volume studies the period between the 11th and thirteenth centuries, the rise and decline of the Saljuqs, the Mongol invasion and the establishment of the Mongol regime. View more info
Price: £27.50
Publisher: Copenhagen, Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri: 1918
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16577
130pp, bound in blue paper covered boards with cloth spine with paper title label. Previous owner's name to lower corner of title page, a light mark to one margin, not affecting the text, otherwise internally very clean. Text in French and Persian script. 53 stories, mainly told to the author by Sayyid Mu'allim circa 1914 . View more info
Price: £12.50
Publisher: University of Washington Press: 1987
Seller ID: 16688
4190pp, illustrated soft covers, a very little rubbed to the corners. Introduction in English, and English verse translation and Persian text on facing pages. Internally clean and tight. View more info
Price: £5.50
Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16627
Full size book of 192pp, with illustrated softback covers with a little rubbing to the edges. Previous owner's address label to a corner of the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean and tight. A selection of chapters from Curzon's 1892 classic Persia and the Persian Question, concentrating on the travel rather than the politics, illustrated with Curzon's own photographs, editied and with an Introduction by Peter King. Comes with a separate article by Derek Linstrum on Cur... View more info
By: Davis, Dick
Price: £26.50
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16690
222pp, complete illustrated dustjacket with acrease to the front turnover flap. Traces of a paperclip indent to the flyleaf, otherwsie internally very clean. The author argues that the great Persian epic poem Shahnameh is far more than a patrotic record of kingly deeds. Text and Notes in English, Appendix in Persian. View more info
By: De Bruijn, J T P
Price: £19.50
Publisher: Curzon: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16691
142pp, illustrated softback covers with a light crease to the spine. Internally clean and tight. A readable introduction to Persian Islamic Sufi poetry, including the development of of the tradition, the relation of Sufism and literature, and the four main genres - the epigram, the homiletic poem, love poetry and symbolic narrative. View more info
By: Farahani, Mirza Mohammad Hosayn and Farmayan, Hafez and Elton, Daniel L
Price: £18.50
Publisher: University of Texas: 1990
Seller ID: 16579
A large, heavy book of 380pp with illustrated softback covers, a little rubbed to the corners.B + w illustrations and maps. Internally clean and tight. A memoir of the pilgrimage to Mecca with a wealth of social and economic observation by a well educated observant Iranian gentleman, edited translated and annotated by Hafez Farmayan and Elton L Daniel. View more info
By: Farid al-Din Attar and Arberry, A J
Price: £46.50
Publisher: Malaysia, Thinker's Library: 1996
Seller ID: 16583
Translated by A J Arberry. 287pp, laminated hard covers. A very clean copy. The Tahkirat al-Auliya tells the life stories of 96 Sufi Masters, illustrating their wisdom and teaching. View more info
By: Fekete, L
Price: £124.50
Publisher: Budapest, Akademiai Kiado: 1977
Seller ID: 16639
Text in German. A large, heavy book of 594pp plus 242 b + w photographs of the documents. Red cloth covered boards. Dustjacket with a little wear to the top edge, which has clear tape strengthening. Internally very clean. View more info
By: Fisher, W B
Price: £72.00
Publisher: Cambridge: 1968
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16683
A heavy book of 784p. Complete dustjacket, a little rubbed to the corners.Fold out map, b + w photographs, and illustrations in the text. Internally very clean. The first volume of eight, this volume sets the scene - the geography, geology, anthropology, economic life, flora and fauna of Persia, shaping human activity. View more info
By: Frye, R N (ed)
Price: £72.00
Publisher: Cambridge: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16684
A heavy book of 734p. Priceclipped dustjacket has been strengthened with clear tape to the top of the spine. Colour and b + w photographs, and illustrations in the text. An initial stamped on the title page, otherwise internally very clean. This volume studies the period from the Arab conquests to the Saljuq expansion, in particular the transition from Zoroastrianism to Islam, the uniting under one rule and the flowering of the Persian language and the arts. View more info
By: Frye, Richard N
Price: £3.50
Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1988
Seller ID: 16546
290pp, including Index. Illustrated softback covers. A couple of chapters have pencil marking, otherwise clean and tight. After the conquest of Persia in the mid 7th century, the mutually enriching fusion of the traditions of Iran and the culture of Islam during the seventh to the tenth centuries, and the continuity of Iranian culture in all its aspects. View more info
By: Hafez
Price: £14.50
Publisher: Tehran, Eghbal: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16668
Laminated illustrated boards, a little rubbed to the corners of the spine. Preface by Farshid Eghbal. Text of the sonnets in Persian and in the 1897 English translation of Gertrude Bell. Cover miniature and illustrations by Ustad Khosh-nevis-zadeh and inside minaitures by Ali Nasajpor. Calligraphy by Hosein Khosravi. A clean copy of an attractive edition from Tehran. View more info
By: Hafez and Boylan, Michael and Clarke, Wilberforce
Price: £34.50
Publisher: Mage: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16539
Square format. 107pp, beige cloth covered boards. Illustrated dustjacket with some wear to the edges. Colour illustrations. Internally clean. The verse translations are by Michael Boylan and the prose translations by H W Clarke. Newly calligraphed Qazvini/Ghani text by Amir Hossein Tabnak. View more info
By: Hafiz and Ahmad, Nazir and Na'ini, S M Reza Jalali
Price: £46.50
Publisher: Teheran, 1983
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16662
The Divan of Hafiz, edited by Nazir Ahmad and S M Reza Jalali Na'ini. Text entirely in Persian. A very large, heavy book in yellow cloth covered boards. Internally very clean. Said on a card found in the book to be based on a manuscript of AD 1421, containing 435 ghazals. A rare book. View more info
Price: £28.50
Publisher: Bibliotheca Islamica: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16681
181pp, grey cloth covered boards with gilt title, the corners a little rubbed. Text in English, with the poems in Persian and western script. Internally clean. A study of the ghazal poems of the great Persian lyric poet Hafez, with 16 studied in detail. View more info
