Le Koran. Traduit de l’Arabe, accompangne de notes, et precede d’un abrege de la vie de Mahomet, tres des ecrivains Orienteaux les plus estimes.

Qu’ran / Savary (Translator).

Book ID: 10525

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Small 8vo. x, 533 pp., translated into French by Claude Etienne Savary, contemporary full calf, slightly faded & rubbed, all edges red, copy clean and in good condition, Garnier Freres, Paris, 1883.

Synopsis

It was Claude Etienne Savary who enabled the reader to express his opinion on the legislator of Arabi with wisdom (Pfannmuller). Without doubt, it was he who introduced the term “Koran” to the era of Enlightenment. Up until that period, people in general spoke of the “Alcora” only.

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