8vo. 445 pp., [2 of which 1 is errata], 8 plates hors text, half-calf, publisher’s original wrappers preserved, introduction by Vincent Monteil, pencil annotations on front fly leaf, otherwise copy clean & in good condition, Julliard, Paris, 1962.

Synopsis

Collection des lettres dirigee par Maurice Nadeau. Louis Massignon passed away on 31st October 1962 when this book was still in printing.
Louis Massignon was a French scholar of Islam and its history. Although a Catholic himself, he tried to understand Islam from within and thus had a great influence on the way Islam was seen in the West; among other things, he paved the way for a greater openness inside the Catholic Church towards Islam as it was documented in the pastoral Vatican II declaration Nostra Aetate.