Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1907, Vol. 28

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Excerpt from Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1907, Vol. 28: First Half Nearly three score and ten years have passed since Silvestre de Sacy, the originator of modern Arabic scholarship, attempted to give a systematic presentation of Shiism in the introductory chapters Of his Expose de la religion cles Druses (two volumes, Almost a whole literature has since been rescued from Oblivion and access has been given to historical sources then scarcely dreamt Of. Yet a pragmatic history of Shiism which would reveal to us the inner workings and the organic develop ment of this movement is still a desideratum, and will probably remain a desideratum for a long time to come. This peculiar condition is by no means due to a lack of zeal on the part Of modern Arabists. It can and must be primarily attributed to a twofold circumstance: to the nature of the problem itself, and to the character Of the historical material dealing with it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.