Seller: Peffers Rare Books Ltd, London, United KingdomPeffers Rare Books Ltd

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SHEIKH AHMED AL-TIJANI - POPULAR PRINTING IN ISLAMIC NORTH AFRICA Chromolithographed print measuring between 281 by 379mm, backed onto board, printer?s slug under the image; faint paper watermark running along the left edge of the print; some spotting to the margins and around the central figure, two closed tear to the head edge. In good condition and suitable for framing. Tunisia: Al Manar Press, n.d. [but c.1940]. A beautiful Quranic popular image showing Sheikh Ahmad al-Tijani (1737-1815), an Algerian Sufi teacher who founded the Tijaniyyah tariqa, an African Sufi order. Collected by both locals and Westerners, the stylistic inspiration for for this series of designs appears to be a set of prints published at the Fine Art Press in Cairo in the 1920?s. This evidences the development of Islamic popular printing across the Maghreb. This cataloguer is aware of only a handful of examples of popular Islamic printing in Western institutions. One off these is the Pompidou's holding of a Boneste?ve print purchased by Wassily Kandinsky in Tunisia (AM 81-65-1266). Scarce.…

Seller Inventory # 813-9

Bibliographic details

Title
[Islamic popular image.]
Author
AL MANAR PRESS CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY
Seller catalogs
Book design/printing, Maghreb

Peffers Rare Books Ltd

London, United Kingdom

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AbeBooks seller since July 14, 2026

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Rare and out of print books, specialising in items that relate to the Middle East.

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Books, Photos, Maps and Ephemera

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Peffers Rare Books Ltd

United Kingdom