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(INDIA). Idra Zuta or the Lesser Holy Assembly. Translated from the Aramaic Chaldee into Arabic (in Hebrew characters) by Abraham David Ezekiel. First Edition.  Text of Zohar with interlinear Judeo-Arabic translation. Zohar in square characters, translation in rabbinic type. Two titles: English and Judeo-Arabic. Author’s introduction in Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic. pp. (6), 105. Opening four leaves loose, browned, some worming. Modern boards. 4to. Ya'ari, Poona no. 7 and pp. 83–85. Poona, A.D. Ezekiel, 1887. Rare. Abraham David Salman Hai Ezekiel became enamored by the field of Theosophy which caused no small trouble for his Kabbalistic publications among those of traditionalist views.  See Boaz Huss, Theosophy and Kabbalah in Puna in the Late Nineteenth Century, in: Kabbalah and Modernity: Interpretations, Transformations, Adaptations (Leiden, 2010) pp. 167-193. https://www.academia.edu/472490/The_Sufis_From_America_Kabbalah_and_Theosophy_in_P una_in_the_Late_19th_century