New Encyclopedia of Islam: Concise Encyclopedia of Islam

by Glasse, Cyril; Smith, Huston

• ISBN13: 9780759101906
• ISBN10: 0759101906
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

The New Encyclopedia of Islam is the only single-volume work in print which so comprehensively encompasses the beliefs, practices, history and culture of the Islamic world, in over 1300 entries. All aspects of religious belief, ritual, practices, prayer, significant political movements, spiritual and political leaders, art, architecture, sects, law, social institutions, history, ethnography, nations and states, languages, science, major cities and centers of learning are covered.

Table of Contents

Author's Preface	4	(1)
Introduction to the First Edition	5	(2)
Professor Huston Smith
Notes to the First Edition	7	(2)
The Encyclopedia	9	(499)
including photographic sections between pages	112	(386)
APPENDIX A: Reference Maps
Historical Synopsis of the Islamic World	498	(2)
Historical Synopsis of the Middle East	500	(1)
Arabia and its Neighbours at the Time of the Prophet's Birth	501	(1)
Islam in the Modern World	502	(2)
APPENDIX B: Mecca and the Hajj
Chart of the Hajj	504	(2)
Map of Mecca	506	(1)
Plan of the Grand Mosque	507	(1)
APPENDIX C: Branches of Islam	508	(6)
APPENDIX D: Genealogical Tables
The Quraysh	510	(1)
The Umayyads	511	(1)
The `Abbasids	512	(1)
The `Alids	513	(1)
Chronology	514	(16)
Bibliography	530