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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 2 thoroughly examines the Druze hierarchical structures and doctrines, from moral duties to civil law.

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• Full title: Expose de la religion des Druzes
• Subtitle: Tire des livres religieux de cette secte, et precede d'une introduction et de la vie du khalife Hakem-biamr-Allah
• Author: Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy
• Language: French
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 718
• EAN: 9781108056199
• ISBN: 1108056199
• ID: 02058872
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 970 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 141 × 44 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. February 2013

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