Amazon.com description: Product Description: This work presents the state of current knowledge of the Islamic world. Articles cover topics as varied as: distinguished Muslims of every age and land; tribes and dynasties; crafts; sciences; political and religious institutions; geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of the various countries; and 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. This text is one of eight double fascicules of 128 pages which form a volume, for which covers and prelims are supplied for binding.