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)

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).

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 1
Release date:	February 2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	Antoine Isaac Silvestre De Sacy
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 43mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	768
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-05618-2
Languages:	French
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Theology > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Theology > General
LSN:	1-108-05618-0
Barcode:	9781108056182

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