A History of the Encyclopaedia of Islam

Peri Bearman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

316 Seiten

2018
Lockwood Press (Verlag)
978-1-948488-04-4 (ISBN)

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This is the story of the decisions that shaped the preeminent reference work in the field of Islamic Studies and of the work that went into it. This history sheds light onto the world of academia, tells of the individual scholars who contributed to the encyclopedia's success, and of Europe before and after two world wars. 26 b&w figs.

A History of The Encyclopaedia of Islam is the back story of the decisions that shaped the pre-eminent reference work in the field of Islamic Studies and of the labour that went into it, a story that has not yet been told. It is a record of a monumental, century-long project, undertaken by the greatest scholars of its time; of friendships and rivalries; and of the extraordinary circumstances in which it took shape. As a product of and a contribution to a century's evolving view of Islamic history, civilization, and religion, this history sheds light onto the world of academia, of the individual scholars who contributed to the encyclopedia's success, and of a time-Europe before and after two world wars-and an age of publishing that dramatically changed in its lifetime.

Peri Bearman, who retired as associate director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School, is widely known as an editor of major works of scholarship on the Islamic Near East. She was senior acquisitions editor for Islamic Studies at Brill Academic Publishers from 1990 to 1997; an editor of the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam from 1999 to its completion in 2006; and is currently associate editor for the Islamic Near East for both the journal (JAOS) and the monograph series of the American Oriental Society. She is co-editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law (Ashgate, 2014), of The Law Applied: Contextualizing the Islamic Shari'a (Tauris, 2008), and of The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution, and Progress (Harvard Law School, 2005).

List of Figures

Series Editors' Preface

Preface

Abbreviations

Chapter One The First Editions

1. The Planning Stage, 1892-1899

2. The International Association of Academies

3. The Preparatory Stage, 1901-1908

4. The Thirds Stage, Snouck and Houtsma, 1909-1924

5. Weisinck Successed, 1924-1939

Chapter Two. The Second Edition

1. Constancy, 1948-1956

2. Under New Management, 1957-1997

3. Ascendancy of the Corporate Dollar, 1997-2006

Chapter Three. The Publisher and the Process

1. A Brief History of E. J. Brill

2. Production process

Chapter Four. European Trials: Politics and Scholarship

Conclusion

Appendix One. Entries in the Spécimen d’une enclycopédie musulmane, 1898

Appendix Two. Translation of Max Seligsohn's Critique of the First Edition, 1909

Appendix Three. Supplementary Publications

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.08.2018
Reihe/Serie	A History of the Encyclopaedia of Islam
Zusatzinfo	26 b&w Figs.
Verlagsort	Atlanta
Sprache	englisch
Maße	177 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-948488-04-3 / 1948488043
ISBN-13	978-1-948488-04-4 / 9781948488044
Zustand	Neuware