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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 1 looks at the early history and doctrines of the Ismaili movement. Volume 2 examines the Druze hierarchical structures and internal characteristics, from moral duties to civil law.
Contents
Volume 1Extrait de Nowairi; Notice des manuscrits druzes; 1. Dieu. Divinite de Hakem. Volume 2: 2. Des ministres de la religion unitaire; 3. Simples unitaires; 4. Religion unitaire; 5. Jugement dernier; 6. Religion des Druzes; 7. Droit civil.
