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

Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy

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
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
28 February 2013
Pages
768
ISBN
9781108056182

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

Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy

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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