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Simon Ockley : The History of the Saracens. Containing the Lives of Abubeker, Omar, Othman, Ali, Hasan, Moawiyah I. Yesid I. Moawiyah II. Abdolla, Merwan I. and Abdolmelick, the Immediate Successors of Mohamet. Giving an Account of Their Most Remarkable Battles, Sieges, &c. Particularly those of Aleppo, Antioch, Damascus, Alexandria, and Jerusalem. Illustrating the Religion, Rites, Customs and Manner of Living of that Warlike People

Anne Ockley, Cambridge, c. 1757.

Contemporary full calf, rebacked expertly in six compartments of raised bands, gilt lettering on two and four, edges tinted red. , Minor age-toning, otherwise an excellent copy in attractive period binding., 8vo, P. Volume 1. half-title, blank, title, blank, (30), 1-339, blank, index (19); Volume 2. title, blank, (1), blank, i-lviii, 1-356, index (12)., Volume : Two volumes.

An important 18th-century book on the history of early Islam and the Arabian Peninsula. Ockley was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, and in 1711 was there appointed professor of Arabic. In the preface of his first book, Introductio ad linguas orientates (1706), Ockley maintained that knowledge of Oriental literature was essential to the proper study of theology. His book, The History of the Saracens, was the main source of average notions of Mohammedan history for generations (Oxford Concise Bibliography)., Graesse V:7.

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