| Evidence: | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Sale's "Preliminary Discourse to the Koran" ...' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Oct 1800 and 31 Oct 1801 | ||||||||||
| Country: | India | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Mountstuart Elphinstone |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 6 Oct 1779 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | East India Company administrator |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | India |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | George Sale |
| Title: | Preliminary discourse to the Koran |
| Genre: | Other religious |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 14160 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | James Sutherland Cotton | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Mountstuart Elphinstone | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1892 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 27 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | James Sutherland Cotton, Mountstuart Elphinstone (Oxford, 1892), p. 27, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14160, accessed: 30 March 2023 | |
| One of a group of some 70 works read mainly while journeying, with Edward Strachey, between a post in Benares and his next posting in Poona. Title possibly "The Koran commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed, translated from the original Arabic; with explanatory notes taken from the most approved commentators. To which is prefixed a preliminary discourse ? By George Sale" |
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