Description

Hardcover, brown cloth boldly stamped in silver lettering. no dust-jacket as issued. 188 pages. Russian edition. Text in Russian and Persian (Farsi) with brief summary and table of contents at rear in English. Illustrated with holograph images of never before published texts of manuscripts from the collection of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences {St. Petersburg]. First edition. Persian commentaries on the Koran, from the earliest (10th century) to the present], devoted to Shiite (Iranian) interpretations of the Koran. Contains fragments of 14 books, including the first known translation of the Qur’an into Persian. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, tight and unmarked copy, appears unread and like new. Fine. Text in Russian and Persian.