4to. ii, [1] 155 pp., original red cloth, slightly faded at spine, lightly rubbed round edges with some discolouration to cover extremities, previous owner’s inscription on front fly leaf, a couple of underlining or annotations in red pencil, light browning to endpapers, otherwise copy in very good condition, two typed correspondence inserts from Royal Asiatic Society dated 1931 & 1962 respectively and addressed to an H. or R. Loewe, Asiatic Monographs, Vol. III, Royal Asiatic Society, London, 1902.

Synopsis

This study is the first English translation of Hirschfeld’s Beitrage Zur Erklarung Des Koran which appeared first in German in 1886. Hirschfeld tries to identify a largre number of Old Testament Jewish thoughts and expressions in the Qur’an. He reviews approximately 250 parts of the Qur’an more or less extensively and provides a register of the comparative texts from the Qur’an, Old Testaments, the Talmud and the Mishnah.
Enay, 217 for German edition.