Exposé de la religion des Druzes
Tiré des livres religieux de cette secte, et précédé d'une introduction et de la vie du khalife Hakem-biamr-Allah

Published in 1838, this is a two-volume study of the Druze sect by the father of Arab scholarship in Europe.

Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (Author)

9781108056199, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 February 2013

718 pages
21.6 x 14 x 4 cm, 0.9 kg

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.

2. Des ministres de la religion unitaire
3. Simples unitaires
4. Religion unitaire
5. Jugement dernier
6. Religion des Druzes
7. Droit civil.

Subject Areas: Theology [HRLB]