The concise encyclopedia of Islam /

Glasse, Cyril.
ACKU
Cyril Glassé ; introduction by Huston Smith.
San Francisco : Harper & Row, ©1986.
472 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
English
0060631236
9780060631239
Islam.
Islam – Dictionaries.
BP40. / G537 1986
Library of Congress Classification / Monograph
3ACKU000532670
Abstract: Nearly 1200 entries cover religious and ritual practices, prayer, prophets, sects, law, the calendar, social institutions, history, othnography, nationhood, calligraphy and art, languages, medicine, sciences, major cities, and centers of learning. Quotations and hitherto untranslated prayers with 45 color photographs.