Moines et Monasteres Du Proche-Orient (Monks and Monasteries of the Near East)

Jules Leroy

Published by Horizons De France, 1958

About this Item

276 pp (French text), with 64 black and white photographs and a double-page map. Transparent, colourless plastic dust jacket, yellow cloth boards with a decorative front cover and black titles to the spine-pictorial eps of photographs from a Coptic bas-relief in the Louvre. Chapters on The religious map of the Turco-Arab world, In the Coptic monasteries of Upper and Lower Egypt, In the tekkiyeh of the Baktachis (whirling dervishes) of Old cairo, In the Greek monasteries of Palestine, Lebanon-a monastic land, In the country of the Stylites, On the borders of Kurdistan and Sheikh 'Adi the sanctuary of the Devil Worshippers (Yezidis). Signed by the author on the half-title " Pour Betty et John Addersley. Affection et hommage. J. Leroy". In very good condition.

Seller Inventory # 000425

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Moines et Monasteres Du Proche-Orient (Monks and Monasteries of the Near East)
• Publisher: Horizons De France
• Publication Date: 1958
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Oriental Art