The Legacy of Muslim Spain (HdO, Handbook of Oriental Studies)
Leiden, New York, Koln: E. J. Brill, 1994.
Second Edition. Hardcover. 9 5/8 X 6 3/8". xix, 1098pp, plus maps. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Mild edgewear to dust jacket, with hint of wear to edges and faint dust spotting. Bound in full lime green cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Light shelfwear to binding, with faint bumping to extremities. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. A very presentable first edition of this comprehensive history of medieval Muslim Spain.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
The civilisation of medieval Muslim Spain is perhaps the most brilliant and prosperous of its age and has been essential to the direction which civilisation in medieval Europe took.
This volume is the first ever in any language to deal in a really comprehensive manner with all major aspects of Islamic civilisation in medieval Spain. Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Volume: 12. (Publisher). Very good + / very good +. Item #17601
ISBN: 9004095993
Price: $250.00