A History of the Encyclopaedia of Islam

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).

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Series Editors' Preface

Preface

Abbreviations

Chapter One The First Editions

1. The Planning Stage, 1892-1899

2. The International Association of Academies

3. The Preparatory Stage, 1901-1908

4. The Thirds Stage, Snouck and Houtsma, 1909-1924

5. Weisinck Successed, 1924-1939

Chapter Two. The Second Edition

1. Constancy, 1948-1956

2. Under New Management, 1957-1997

3. Ascendancy of the Corporate Dollar, 1997-2006

Chapter Three. The Publisher and the Process

1. A Brief History of E. J. Brill

2. Production process

Chapter Four. European Trials: Politics and Scholarship

Conclusion

Appendix One. Entries in the Spécimen d’une enclycopédie musulmane, 1898

Appendix Two. Translation of Max Seligsohn's Critique of the First Edition, 1909

Appendix Three. Supplementary Publications

Bibliography

Index