First edition of Redslob's revision of Flügel's text

Quran. Corani arabice. Recensionis Flügelianae textum recognitum iterum exprimi curavit Gustavus Mauritius Redslob [...]. Editio stereotypa.

Leipzig, Karl Tauchnitz, 1837.

8vo. VIII, 529, (5) pp. Printed in red and black throughout. Contemporary green half calf with gilt spine and marbled boards.

 2,500.00

First edition of Redslob's revision of Flügel's text, first published in 1834. The orientalist Gustav Leberecht Flügel (1802-70) edited numerous Arabic texts; his Qur'an edition remained the standard for European scholarship for a century.

A good, clean copy of one of the earliest scholarly Quran editions conforming to modern standards.

References

Cf. Enay 115 (1834 ed.).

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