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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Revised Edition. Important French Translation of the Qur'an;Same Edition Owned by Dostoevsky KASIMIRSKI, M [Tr.]. Le Koran (Qur'an). Paris: Charpentier, Librairie-Editeur, 1847. 1 blank leaf + TP + 1 - 539 + 1 blank leaf. Small octavo. Nouvelle Edition. Albin de Biberstein Kasimirski was French translator and author who studied Eastern and Arabic traditions. Jean-Pierre Pauthier commissioned Kasimirski to translate the Qur'an as part of a larger initiative to gather the sacred books of Confucianism, Hinduism, and Islam. Kasimirski's translation, first published in 1840, built on the earlier translations done by the Italian cleric Louis Maracci and the English scholar George Sale.CONDITION: Very good to near fine in half-leather with marbled boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Very light wear to edges. Marbled endpapers. Internally, pages are exceptionally clean and bright. MORE PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.