Ahmad Amin, Fajr al-Islam: a study of intellectual life from early Islam to the end of the Umayyad state — 10th edition 1969, Dar al-Kitab al-'Arabi, Beirut (Ahmad Amin's Islamic Encyclopaedia series)

فجر الإسلام: يبحث عن الحياة العقلية في صدر الإسلام إلى آخر الدولة الأموية — أحمد أمين، الطبعة العاشرة 1969م، دار الكتاب العربي، بيروت ⁦(موسوعة أحمد أمين الإسلامية)⁩

The tenth edition (1969) of Ahmad Amin's Fajr al-Islam, originally published by the Lajnat al-Ta'lif wa-al-Tarjama wa-al-Nashr. It holds the author's preface to the second edition (January 1933), Taha Husayn's preface to the first (December 1928) and the contents, then seven parts: the Arabs before Islam, Islam, the Persians and their influence, Greco-Roman influence, intellectual life and its centres, the religious movement in detail (the Qur'an and its exegesis, hadith, law), and the religious sects; then an index of names.

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