[Rarebooks] fa: [ISLAM] MAHOMETISM FULLY EXPLAINED - Muhammad Rabadan & Joseph Morgan - 1723

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Muhammad Rabadan; [Joseph Morgan, trans.]: Mahometism Fully Explained: Containing I. The previous Disposition to, and the Method of, the Creation: The Fall of Adam and Eve; Their Repentance and Sufferings; Their Posterity down to Noah. With a particular Description of the Deluge. II. The Wonderful Life of Abraham, and the Distinction between the Two Lines, that of Isaac, Father of the Jews, and of Ishmael, Father of the Arabs. III. An Historical and Chronological Dissertation concerning the Miraculous Prophetick Light, which shone on the Forehead of Mahomet, and all his Progenitors. IV. The lives of Hashem, Abdolmutalib, and Abdallah, the Three immediate Predecessors of Mahomet; With his own Life, Pilgrimage to Heaven, Death, &c. The Prayers, Ceremonies, Fasts, Festivals, and other Rites observed by the Mahometans. With a Remarkable Description of the Day of Judgment. Written in Spanish and Arabick, in the Year M.DC.III. for the Instruction of the Moriscoes in Spain. By Mahomet Rabadan, an Arragonian Moor. Translated from the Original Manuscript, and Illustrated with large Explanatory Notes. By Mr. Morgan. London: Printed for W. Mears, at the Lamb, without Temple-Bar, MDCCXXIII [1723]. First edition, 8vo (20 cm), in early/period paneled calf; xxvi, [6], 390 pp.; woodcut decorations and initials, two folding engraved plates, one folding genealogical table (complete).

Though there's no mention of it on the title-page, this is the first volume of what would eventually become a two-volume work, the second volume being published in 1725. A translation of a manuscript written by the Morisco poet Muhammad Ramadan in 1603, and acquired by the translator, Joseph Morgan, in a Tunisian market in 1719. Morgan had served as vice-consul in Algiers for many years and published this, his first book, shortly after his return to England. The volume is dedicated to Lord Harley, into whose "Harleyan Library" Morgan placed the original manuscript.

Binding with rubbing and wear, front board detached, rear board held by the cords; contents with occasional light browning, a few scattered small spots, one plate with some wear to the protruding fore-edge, one leaf stained and chipped at the fore-edge from an old tape repair (not affecting the text), else quite clean and sound. Front paste-down with the bookplate of Lois Pool Howard.