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Hardcover. Etat : As New. "Biography has served as a major source for the history of Islamic civilization. This book is the first Encyclopaedia-length reference work to explore the origins and development of classical Islamic biography to fully document the political, scholarly and religious achievements of the Muslim community. The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Islam is an exciting book - a book which combines the ease of use of an A-Z dictionary with the overview and readability of a thematic Encyclopaedia. The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Islam features unrivalled coverage of the Islam's most prominent people, past and present -- more than 6,500 individuals - while giving the reader new insights into history, politics, science and culture. With entries ranging from between 50 words to 15000 words, the book includes entries by some of the leading Islamic scholars of the world of the twentieth century. Drawn from the parent work, titled Encyclopaedia of Islam, the hugely popular and globally successful work has remained a standard reference source for Islamic studies. Encyclopaedia of Islam remains till date the most comprehensive work which is a mine of information. The work was supervised by a distinguished editorial board which eventually included M. Th. Houtsma, T.W. Arnold, Basset, Hartmann, A.J. Wensinck, W. Heffening, E. Levi Provencal and H.A.R. Gibb. This unique reference work is now available to meet the immediate needs of scholars, students of Islam, librarians, and even government institutions, in fact, anyone interested in Islam and its rich culture." (jacket).

The Encyclopaedia will be immensely helpful to those who wish to orient themselves to what has become a very large body of literature on Islamic history By bringing together the writings of some of the greatest Islamic scholars the reference work is a definitive and principal reference tool available to historians of Islam and a systematic review of the sources they confrontThe encyclopedia is an essential reference for anyone with interest in doing any type of study in the history of Islam from 600-1800 In this way it facilitates a critical yet broad engagement with the important scholarship hitherto written in the field helping us to refine reconsider and reshape the direction of future scholarship Also this work serves as an accessible point of entry for Islamic scholars in principle and historians who specialize in areas other than Islamic history in generalThe topics selected represent a cross section of Islamic historical studies some of which are The Islamic empires Islam under the caliphs The golden age of Islam The monarchies of Islamic world founding of the Islamic dynasties History of Islamic migrations Islamic supremacy Rise of the Islamic nations Antiquity of Islam Mesopotamia and Assyria Rise and fall of the empires History of Arabia prior to the time of Muhammad The crusades The sources of Islam Islam in the medieval world The spread of Islam Muslim sects and their development Political history of Islam History of Muslim literature Education universities development of arts and sciences Trade commerce and navigation Muslim aesthetic culture Islamic art and architecture Miscellaneous Muslim arts Life of Muhammad The political spirit of Islam The political divisions and Schisms of Islam The literary and scientific spirit of Islam The Hegira The caliphate and the institute of the Caliphate Islamic movements Modernism in Islam The renaissance of Islamic civilization 3516 pp.