{"product_id":"a-rare-bulaq-edition-a-concise-history-of-caliphs-كتاب-مختصر-أخبار-الخلفاء-kitab-mukhtasar-akhbar-al-khulefa-i-e-a-concise-history-of-the-caliphs","title":"[A RARE BULAQ EDITION: A CONCISE HISTORY OF CALIPHS] كتاب مختصر أخبار الخلفاء \/ Kitâb mukhtasar akhbâr al-khulefâ’ [i.e., A concise history of the caliphs]","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIBN AL-SA'I ALI IBN ANJAB IBN UTHMAN IBN ABDULLAH ABU TALIB, TAJ AL-DIN (1197-1275\/6).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eMatba'ah al-Amîrîyah - Bulaq, Bulaq, Cairo, AH 1309 [CE 1892].\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eContemporary brown calf lettered gilt on spine with blind tooled decorative elements, marbled boards. Cr. 8vo. (18,5 x 13 cm). In Arabic. 104 p. Slight toning on pages, first and last pages are loosely inserted; a piece is missing from the spine; corners bumped; an old label trace on the spine. Overall, a good copy.\u003cspan style=\"color: #ee0000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eUncommon first edition of this early biographical work on the caliphs, covering their lives from the early Islamic period to the last Abbasid caliph, al-Mu’tasim, who was killed during the Mongol invasion. It constitutes the only abridged volume from Ibn al-Sa’î’s twenty-five-volume corpus to have been printed at the renowned Bulaq Press. Some sources, however, note that the work attributed to Ibn al-Sa’î may not be genuinely his. (al-ʿAzzâwî).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eIbn al-Sa’î is thought to have finished his corpus in AH 656 [CE 1258], at the time of the Mongol invasion. The “Mukhtaṣar”, which formed its ninth volume, was the only part to be printed at the renowned Bulaq Press centuries later.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAs of March 2026, OCLC locates four copies in the North American libraries: 13490057 \u0026amp; 1227684739.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Khalkedon Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46924641501315,"sku":null,"price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0390\/3294\/6819\/files\/01_sml-Kopya.jpg?v=1775394211","url":"https:\/\/khalkedonrarebooks.com\/products\/a-rare-bulaq-edition-a-concise-history-of-caliphs-%d9%83%d8%aa%d8%a7%d8%a8-%d9%85%d8%ae%d8%aa%d8%b5%d8%b1-%d8%a3%d8%ae%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ae%d9%84%d9%81%d8%a7%d8%a1-kitab-mukhtasar-akhbar-al-khulefa-i-e-a-concise-history-of-the-caliphs","provider":"Khalkedon Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}