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HOTTINGER, J.H. Historia Orientalis: quae ex variis Orientalium monumentis collecta, agit De Muhammedismo, (…) De Saracenismo, (…) De Chaldaismo (…), (etc.). Ed. 2a. Zurich, typis, J.J. Bodmeri, 1660. (20), 600, (24) pp. 4°. 19th c. cl. (Margins cut, slightly browned/foxed).
This work can be considered to be one of the earliest scholarly handbooks of Islamic history and religion. The Swiss theologian J.H. Hottinger (1620-67) studied under Golius at Leiden, and was befriended with the foremost scholars of his days like Pococke and Grotius.€ 400
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