Large 8vo. Arabic text, titles in Arabic & English on front and back covers, Volume I: from year 34 to 634 AD [21, + 1 dedication] + 465 pp., frontispiece portrait / Volume II: from year 634- 1453 AD: [5] + 369 pp., frontispiece portrait, a presentation copy to Nicola Ziadeh, inscribed by the author and dated on title page / Volume III: Christianity and Islam from 1453-1928: 409 pp., frontispiece portrait bound upside down, partly unopened, previous owner’s stamp on end papers, soft covers as published, covers sunned, edges slightly chipped and bumped, there’s a square plaster on the end paper of each volumes, otherwise copy in very good condition internally, al-Nur Publication, Beirut, first edition, 1928.

Synopsis

“Geographical, historical Antioch extended to reach the Syrian, Armenian, Turkish Taurus mountains in the North, the Persian boundaries to the East, to the Sinai desert and the Mediterranean Phoenician coast, including Mount Lebanon, Palestine, in the South and West. It Encompassed the Umayad Capital Damascus, Lebanon’s Beirut, the Jordan’s Amman and the Iraqi Baghdad. Indeed it embraced the whole of the Greater Syria and the Levant, known as well as the Holy Land”.
Asad Rustum M.A. Phd Historian to the Apostolic Thronos of Antioch.