Exposé de la Religion des Druzes 2 Volume Set: Exposé de la Religion des Druzes: Volume 2 Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives From the Royal Asiatic Society) (in French)
Exposé de la Religion des Druzes 2 Volume Set: Exposé de la Religion des Druzes: Volume 2 Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives From the Royal Asiatic Society) (in French)
Exposé de la Religion des Druzes 2 Volume Set: Exposé de la Religion des Druzes: Volume 2 Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives From the Royal Asiatic Society) (in French) - Silvestre De Sacy
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Exposé de la Religion des Druzes 2 Volume Set: Exposé de la Religion des Druzes: Volume 2 Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives From the Royal Asiatic Society) (in French)
Silvestre De Sacy
Synopsis "Exposé de la Religion des Druzes 2 Volume Set: Exposé de la Religion des Druzes: Volume 2 Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives From the Royal Asiatic Society) (in French)"
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.