Publisher's Synopsis
With the aim of offering a key understanding of the Islamic world, this volume embraces articles on: distinguished Muslims of every age and land; tribes and dynasties; the crafts and sciences; political and religious institutions; the geography; ethnography; flora and fauna of the various countries; and on the history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities. In its geographical and historical scope it encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic Empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire and all other Islamic countries.
