By Peri Bearman
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).
A History of the Encyclopaedia of Islam
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Table of Contents
List of Figures
Series Editors’ Preface
Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter One. The First Edition
- The Planning Stage, 1892–1899
- The International Association of Academies
- The Preparatory Stage, 1901–1908
- The Third Stage, Snouck and Houtsma, 1909–1924
- Wensinck Succeeds, 1924–1939
Chapter Two. The Second Edition
- Constancy, 1948–1956
- Under New Management, 1957–1997
- Ascendancy of the Corporate Dollar, 1997–2006
Chapter Three. The Publisher and the Process
- A Brief History of E. J. Brill
- Production Process
Chapter Four. European Trials: Politics and Scholarship
Conclusion
Appendix One. Entries in the Spécimen d’une encyclopédie musulmane, 1898
Appendix Two. Translation of Max Seligsohn’s Critique of the First Edition, 1909
Appendix Three. Supplementary Publications
Bibliography Index