Hamaker henricus arentius (1 Ergebnisse)

FIRST EDITION. 4to. (27 x 23 cm). pp. [iv]+100. Bound in contemporary marbled paper wrappers, printed on good quality laid paper, text in Latin and Arabic. Some light toning to contents, generally a very good example. A very scarce exploration on the life of Ahmad ibn Tulun (835-884), the first edition, printed in Latin and Arabic. Ahmad ibn Tulun was the founder of the Tulunid dynasty that ruled Egypt and Syria between 868 and 905. An Arabised Turkic slave-soldier, in 868 Ibn Tulun was sent to Egypt as governor by the Abbasid caliph. Within four years he had established himself as a virtually independent ruler by evicting the caliphal fiscal agent, Ibn al-Mudabbir, taking over control of Egypt's finances, and establishing a large military force consisting of native Egyptians personally loyal to himself. The present treatise is by two Dutch scholars. Taco Roorda (1801-1874), a Dutch theologian and man of letters. In 1828 he was appointed extraordinary professor of Oriental languages, Hebrew antiquities and Old Testament exegesis at the Athenaeum Illustre in Amsterdam. In 1834 he was appointed full professor there of speculative philosophy and Oriental languages. Henry Albert Hamaker (17891835) was a prominent Dutch academic, theologian, and professor of Oriental languages at Leiden University. He was deeply invested in editing, translating, and analysing classical Arabic manuscripts. In this work, the authors present a critical look at the life of the ancient ruler.…