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Oriental antiquities and general view of the Othoman customs, laws and ceremonies : exhibiting many curious pieces of the eastern hemisphere, relative to the Christian and Jewish dispensations : with various rites and mysteries of the Oriental Freemasons / translated from the French of M. de M---- d'Ohsson

Contributor(s): Mouradgea d'Ohsson, Ignatius, 1740-1807 [trl] | American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) | Asutosh Collection (National Library, India).
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : Printed for the Select Committee and Grand Lodge of Enquiry, 1788Description: xi, [1], 593, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.Uniform titles: Tableau general de l'Empire othoman . English Subject(s): Islam -- Early works to 1800 | Islamic law | Freemasonry -- Turkey -- Early works to 1800DDC classification: 297
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"This work is divided into two parts entirely distinct and separate from each other: the one comprehends the Mahometan legislation, the other the history of the Othoman empire": p. 5-6

Comprises only the religious code of the Mahomethan legislatio