- The volumes of the first edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam appeared
between 1913 and 1936, and despite being prohibitively expensive, it was
so popular that it sold out and became a collector’s edition. In 1953, the
thousands of pages were condensed down to a six hundred page Shorter
Encyclopaedia of Islam. It is to this condenseded version which we refer
in this book. The entries in the Shorter Encyclopaedia of Islam are the
same entries as in the full encyclopaedia. This shorter version of the
Encyclopaedia is 650 A4 pages, whilst the full version has over 6,000
pages. The current edition of the full encyclopaedia costs around $25,000.
There can be no doubt about the authoritative status of this reference
book. ↵
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