Author: PIJPER, G.F.,
Title: Fragmenta Islamica. Studiën over het Islamisme in Nederlandsch-Indië. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1934. Original cloth, covertitle and title on spine, dustjacket. (x), 195pp. Footnotes (references), register, table of contents. Six important dutch language scholarly essays on Islam, religion and thought in the Dutch East Indies by a foremost dutch Arabist, e.g. Women and Mosque, trade in snake skins, divorce and apostasy, advancement of Tidjaniyyah on Java, fresh religious thought in Bencoolen. Still of great importance. Good copy. Rare. (dustjacket frayed, worming to lower outer parg, worming to lower outer cover, alongside spine and tail margins of both covers, hftitle a bit spotted, contents clean, tight copy).

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