Comprehensively encompasses the beliefs, practices, history, and culture of the Islamic world in a single, scholarly volume. Features over 1400 fully revised entries including a wide range of new entries covering the contemporary Islamic scene.

Originally published: The concise encyclopedia of Islam. San Francisco : Harper & Row, 1989.

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