Author: BROSSELARD, Charles.
Title: Les khouan. De la constitution des ordres religieux musulmans en Algérie.Algiers, A. Bourget, August 1859. 8vo. Contemporary red half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.
Description: 36 pp.First edition of a work on the khouan, the brothers of Islamic "religious orders" in Algeria, written by Charles Brosselard (1816-1889). He describes the origin, hierarchy, organization and (initiation) rituals of seven influential Sufi brotherhoods. "A work of great learning and value" (Playfair).With author's presentation inscription to the French general Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao (1796-1878), who served as a cavalry officer in Algeria, on half-title. With an armorial bookplate on paste-down. Overall in very good condition, binding only very slightly rubbed along the extremities.l Levtzion & Pouwels, The history of Islam in Africa, pp. 170, 184; Playfair, Bibliography of Algeria, 2099.
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Title: Les khouan. De la constitution des ordres religieux musulmans en Algérie.Algiers, A. Bourget, August 1859. 8vo. Contemporary red half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.
Description: 36 pp.First edition of a work on the khouan, the brothers of Islamic "religious orders" in Algeria, written by Charles Brosselard (1816-1889). He describes the origin, hierarchy, organization and (initiation) rituals of seven influential Sufi brotherhoods. "A work of great learning and value" (Playfair).With author's presentation inscription to the French general Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao (1796-1878), who served as a cavalry officer in Algeria, on half-title. With an armorial bookplate on paste-down. Overall in very good condition, binding only very slightly rubbed along the extremities.l Levtzion & Pouwels, The history of Islam in Africa, pp. 170, 184; Playfair, Bibliography of Algeria, 2099.
Keywords: [4C531C9794C4] AFRICA|[4C531C9794C4] AFRICA -> [C98C41A79B35] North Africa & Egypt|[G8L0P27N9XV3] MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD|[G8L0P27N9XV3] MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD -> [H1G08H81G4UF] Africa|[0953FE2C125A] RELIGION & DEVOTION|[0953FE2C125A] RELIGION &
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- Book number: J6NB8L2BENCY
- Book number: J6NB8L2BENCY