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ARABIC AND PERSIAN SPRENGER (ALOYS) Kitāb Fahrasat al-kutub allatī narghabu an nabtāʻahā wa-al-masāʼil allatī tūḍiḥ jins al-kutub allatī narghabu al-ḥuṣūl ʻalayhā innamā najhalu asmāʼahā wa-al-masāʼil fī ʻilm al-ḥarb, [London, 1840]
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ARABIC AND PERSIAN
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Rare list of library desiderata in Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Hindustani, relating to Islamic warfare, with a treatise on the same subject by George FitzClarence, first earl of Munster. Munster was the President of the Publication of Oriental Studies and, with Sprenger working as his secretary and amanuensis, was searching for materials to help with the writing of his "Military Science among the Mussulmans".
Provenance: Colonel Samuel B. Miles (1838-1914), diplomat in Oman and Persia, author of The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf, 1919; gifted by his widow to Bath Public Library, 1920.





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