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Expose de la religion des Druzes - Tire des livres religieux de cette secte, et precede d'une introduction et de la vie du khalife Hakem-biamr-Allah (French, Paperback)
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Expose de la religion des Druzes - Tire des livres religieux de cette secte, et precede d'une introduction et de la vie du khalife Hakem-biamr-Allah (French, Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 1
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Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758 1838), the most distinguished
French orientalist of his time, is considered the father of Arab
scholarship in Europe. He had a lifelong interest in a little-known
religious community, the Druze, which emerged in the eleventh
century as an Ismaili schismatic movement. De Sacy's monumental
study was begun in the 1790s, when he translated some of the Druze
scriptures from Arabic to French. Such was his commitment to
learning more about the Druze that he waited forty years before
publishing this two-volume work in 1838, as he hoped to uncover
further source material. It offers pioneering insight into the
religious system founded by Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad during the
reign of the caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. Volume 1 looks at the
early history and doctrines of the Ismaili movement before
expanding on the reign of al-Hakim (996 1021).
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