First edition, in the original Arabic with a German translation, commentary and extensive notes, of an account of the last fight and the death of Muhammads companion Mu'sab ibn al-Zubayr, accompanied by extensive genealogical information about the Zubayr family, including Mus'ab ibn al-Zubayrs wives and offspring. Mus'ab ibn al-Zubayr (died 691 CE), an Arab military commander of the Second Fitna and son of Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, was a close companion and prominant disciple of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He lived in Medina and died in the Battle of Maskin.
The Arabic text and German translation give an extract from Zubair ibn Bakkar's Kitab al-Muwaffakiyat, the German translated from the Arabic redaction by Abu Abdallah el-Dimaschkí. The Göttingen publisher issued the original Arabic with Wüstenfelds translation both separately, as here, and as part of Abhandlungen der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 23 (1878). Ferdinand Wüstenfeld (1808-1899), a 19th-century German orientalist and professor of Oriental languages at the University of Göttingen, is particularly known for his translations of Arabic works, his history and topography of Mecca and Medina and his works on Arabian families and genealogies.
Binding only very little worn around the edges, some minor foxing, but overall in very good condition. Bibliotheca orientalis (1878), p. 79.