A History of the Encyclopaedia of Islam

by Peri Bearman

Overview

A History of The Encyclopaedia of Islam is the back story of the decisions that shaped the preeminent reference work in the field of Islamic Studies and of the labor 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781948488044
Publisher:	Lockwood Press
Publication date:	03/15/2018
Series:	Resources in Arabic and Islamic Studies , #9
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	6.97(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

List of Figures vii

Series Editors' Preface ix

Preface xi

Abbreviations xvi

Chapter 1 The First Edition 1

1 The Planning Stage, 1892-1899 4

2 The International Association of Academies 23

3 The Preparatory Stage, 1901-1908 28

4 The Third Stage, Snouck and Houtsma, 1909-1924 37

5 Wensinck Succeeds, 1924-1939 50

Chapter 2 The Second Edition 59

1 Constancy, 1948-1956 62

2 Under New Management, 1957-1997 116

3 Ascendancy of the Corporate Dollar, 1997-2006 154

Chapter 3 The Publisher and the Process 167

1 A Brief History of E.J. Brill 167

2 Production Process 193

Chapter 4 European Trials: Politics and Scholarship 209

Conclusion 247

Appendix 1 Entries in the Spécimen d'une encyclopédie musulmane, 1898 253

Appendix 2 Translation of Max Seligsohn's Critique of the First Edition, 1909 255

Appendix 3 Supplementary Publications 267

Bibliography 283

Index 293