Die Alte Geographie Arabiens. Als Grundlage der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Semitismus.

Die Alte Geographie Arabiens. Als Grundlage der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Semitismus.

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Die Alte Geographie Arabiens. Als Grundlage der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Semitismus.
  • Die Alte Geographie Arabiens. Als Grundlage der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Semitismus.
  • Die Alte Geographie Arabiens. Als Grundlage der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Semitismus.
Die Alte Geographie Arabiens. Als Grundlage der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Semitismus.

Die Alte Geographie Arabiens. Als Grundlage der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Semitismus.

£30

ID #16943

Sprenger, Aloys 1813-1893.

8vo. 343 pp., 1 folding map, cloth, lightly bumped at top corner, index, small smudge in margin of page 96, otherwise copy in very good condition, a reprint of 1875 first edition, Meridian Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1966.

Aloys Sprenger ( 1813-1893) studied in Vienna and Paris, then moved to London in 1838 and became a British citizen. After graduating in 1841 from Leiden University as a medical doctor on his thesis “ Arab medicine during the Caliphate period”, he was sent by the East India Company to serve in India. he was appointed as a president of the Islamic College in Delhi.
Sprenger translated several works from Arabic into German, including a biography of The Prophet and sections from the Qur’an. This work is a geographical survey of the routes between Islamic countries including Arabia, Iraq, Syria and the Syrian desert, Western Euphrates, Persia, Afghanistan, and other areas.

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