Edmond DOUTTÉ
L'Islâm algérien en l'an 1900
[Algerian Islam in the Year 1900]
Giralt|Algiers 1900|14.2 x 23 cm|Broché
Rare first edition (cf. Tailliart 3062).
A disbound copy preserved in a plain brown paper wrapper, the titles handwritten in ink on the spine and upper cover, with a faint marginal dampstain to the title-page.
Edmond Doutté (1867–1926) was a sociologist, orientalist and Islamic scholar — fluent in both Arabic and Berber —, a multifaceted French intellectual and, above all, a French explorer of Islam and the Maghreb in his time, to whom Marcel Mauss paid tribute ("explorateur complet, géographe, géologue, naturaliste, anthropologue, ethnographe, sociologue, historien, linguiste, agent d'information")
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