Wallin georg august ed (3 risultati)

Pp. (x), cxxxiv, 366. With one front portrait and one folding map. Text in Swedish. Contemporary cloth, gilt lettered calf spine, slightly faded. First edition. Wallin, a distinguished Finnish orientalist who made several journeys to the Middle East in the 1840's and was the first European with knowledge of Arabic to explore the Arabian peninsula. Disguised as a learned Moslem sheikh he visited Mecca and Medina. This work comprises a collection of his letters and diary notes as well as a biography. (Included in "Sv. Litteratursällskapet i Finland. LXX").…

Pp. xxxii, 407; (iv), 450; (iv), 510; (iv), 383. With one engraved portrait, two folding maps, one music plate and one folding plate of inscriptions. Original printed wrappers bound in. Later (first half of 20th century) marbled paper boards, flat calf spines decorated and lettered in gilt. Bookplate (Ragnar Dahlberg). A handsome copy.First edition, posthumously published, based on Wallin's diary and letters written during expeditions into the interior of Arabia. His first journey was made in 1845 to report on the political developments at a time when the region was striving for independence from Egyptian rule. Disguised as a horse trader, he travelled across the Nafud to the Jubbah, Ha'il and the Shammar Mountains. From Ha'il, Wallin joined a caravan of Persian Shia pilgrims to Mecca and Medina. Wallin's second journey took him across the Hijaz Mountains to Tabuk in north-eastern Saudi Arabia. He continued to Tayma (oasis) on the edge of Wahhabi territory and became the first European to set foot there. His journey finally ended in Basra. In 1850 he returned to Finland, where he was appointed professor of oriental languages at the University of Helsinki. Aalto pp 37-40. Röhricht 2038. …

12mo. Pp. (1), 41. With lithographed naskh script, 17 lines on each page within a black border. Stab-sewn as issued. A rare edition of the Lamiyat al-Af'al' by the renowned Arab grammarian Ibn Malik together with a commentary by his son Badr al-Din. Edited by Georg Wallin, acclaimed Finnish orientalist and Arabian scholar. Lamiyat al-Af'al' is a metrical work of ilm al-sarf (the science of morphology) in Arabic grammar. Ibn Malik (Abu 'Abd Allah Jamal al-Din Muhammad) (1204-74) was born in Andalusia and moved East to study in Aleppo. He finally settled in Damascus where he taught language, literature, Koranic recitation etc. He is mainly known for his versification of textbooks, the most famous being a poem titled al-Alfiya. Ibn Malik's grammatical works were core texts in a traditional Islamic curriculum, particularly in Egypt, where Wallin spent eighteen months living as a Muslim in 1844-5. This text was presumably lithographed because of lack of Arabic types in Helsinki. We have only found one listed library copy, at British Library. See Encyclopedia of Arabic literature, p. 347. Zenker BO II, 121.…