8vo. viii, 405 pp., original brown cloth, lightly rubbed at spine extremities, title gilt on spine & front cover, paper slightly browned, few pencil annotations in margins, otherwise copy in good condition, H. D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon, Harlem, 1900.

Synopsis

History of the Islam written by the Leiden scholar Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy who marked the end of a specific period in Islamology in The Netherlands, the next phase was the religious historical one, which was dominated entirely by Snouck Hurgronje (Boland & Farjon, Islam in Indonesia, p.13).