Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Subject: Middle East And Islamic Studies
The Third Edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam is an entirely new work, which sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World and reflects the great diversity of current scholarship. It is a unique and invaluable reference tool, an essential key to understanding the world of Islam, and the authoritative source not only for the religion, but also for the believers and the countries in which they live. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world. Subscriptions: see brill.com
Edited by Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas and Devin J. Stewart.
With Roger Allen, Edith Ambros, Thomas Bauer, Johann Büssow, Carl Davila, Ruth Davis, Ahmed El Shamsy, Maribel Fierro, Najam Haider, Konrad Hirschler, Nico Kaptein, Alexander Knysh, Corinne Lefèvre, Scott Levi, Roman Loimeier, Daniela Meneghini, Negin Nabavi, M'hamed Oualdi, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Ignacio Sánchez, and Ayman Shihadeh.
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The Third Edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam is an entirely new work, which sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World and reflects the great diversity of current scholarship. It is a unique and invaluable reference tool, an essential key to understanding the world of Islam, and the authoritative source not only for the religion, but also for the believers and the countries in which they live. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world. Subscriptions: see brill.com
Ömer Hulusi Efendi (Gerdankıran)
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Ömer Hulusi Efendi (ʿUmar Khuluṣi, d. 1292/1875), called
Gerdankıran (“wryneck”), was an Ottoman jurist, a professor in
medreses
(madrasas, religious colleges), a lecturer in mosques, and one of the drafters of the Ottoman civil law code, the Mecelle-i Ahkam-ı Adliye (Mecelle-i Aḥkām-ı ʿAdlīye), which was widely known as the Mecelle. He was born in Gümüşhane, in the Black Sea region of Anatolia. His career in the
ilmiye (ʿilmīye, the Ottoman Empire’s official Islamic religious establishment) began in Istanbul in 1262/1846 with a post at the office of the chief
müftü (mufti) of the na…
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2022-08-02