Peri Bearman, who retired as associate director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School, is widely known as an editor of major works of scholarship on the Islamic Near East. She was senior acquisitions editor for Islamic Studies at Brill Academic Publishers from 1990 to 1997; an editor of the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam from 1999 to its completion in 2006; and is currently associate editor for the Islamic Near East for both the journal (JAOS) and the monograph series of the American Oriental Society. She is co-editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law (Ashgate, 2014), of The Law Applied: Contextualizing the Islamic Shari'a (Tauris, 2008), and of The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution, and Progress (Harvard Law School, 2005).

"The author had access to archives of personal papers and letters, and to documentation in the publisher's records. This has enabled the writing of a work that brings a unique perspective to the history of an invaluable resource, and shines a fascinating light on its creation and backstory, a story that should be of interest to all who use the Encyclopaedia of Islam, for reference, research, or teaching." Roberta Dougherty, Librarian for the Middle East, Yale University Library

• List of FiguresSeries Editors' PrefacePrefaceAbbreviationsChapter One The First Editions1. The Planning Stage, 1892-18992. The International Association of Academies3. The Preparatory Stage, 1901-19084. The Thirds Stage, Snouck and Houtsma, 1909-19245. Weisinck Successed, 1924-1939Chapter Two. The Second Edition1. Constancy, 1948-19562. Under New Management, 1957-19973. Ascendancy of the Corporate Dollar, 1997-2006Chapter Three. The Publisher and the Process1. A Brief History of E. J. Brill2. Production processChapter Four. European Trials: Politics and ScholarshipConclusionAppendix One. Entries in the Spécimen d’une enclycopédie musulmane, 1898Appendix Two. Translation of Max Seligsohn's Critique of the First Edition, 1909Appendix Three. Supplementary PublicationsBibliographyIndex

Peri Bearman, who retired as associate director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School, is widely known as an editor of major works of scholarship on the Islamic Near East. She was senior acquisitions editor for Islamic Studies at Brill Academic Publishers from 1990 to 1997; an editor of the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam from 1999 to its completion in 2006; and is currently associate editor for the Islamic Near East for both the journal (JAOS) and the monograph series of the American Oriental Society. She is co-editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law (Ashgate, 2014), of The Law Applied: Contextualizing the Islamic Shari'a (Tauris, 2008), and of The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution, and Progress (Harvard Law School, 2005).

"The author had access to archives of personal papers and letters, and to documentation in the publisher's records. This has enabled the writing of a work that brings a unique perspective to the history of an invaluable resource, and shines a fascinating light on its creation and backstory, a story that should be of interest to all who use the Encyclopaedia of Islam, for reference, research, or teaching." Roberta Dougherty, Librarian for the Middle East, Yale University Library

• List of FiguresSeries Editors' PrefacePrefaceAbbreviationsChapter One The First Editions1. The Planning Stage, 1892-18992. The International Association of Academies3. The Preparatory Stage, 1901-19084. The Thirds Stage, Snouck and Houtsma, 1909-19245. Weisinck Successed, 1924-1939Chapter Two. The Second Edition1. Constancy, 1948-19562. Under New Management, 1957-19973. Ascendancy of the Corporate Dollar, 1997-2006Chapter Three. The Publisher and the Process1. A Brief History of E. J. Brill2. Production processChapter Four. European Trials: Politics and ScholarshipConclusionAppendix One. Entries in the Spécimen d’une enclycopédie musulmane, 1898Appendix Two. Translation of Max Seligsohn's Critique of the First Edition, 1909Appendix Three. Supplementary PublicationsBibliographyIndex

Peri Bearman, who retired as associate director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School, is widely known as an editor of major works of scholarship on the Islamic Near East. She was senior acquisitions editor for Islamic Studies at Brill Academic Publishers from 1990 to 1997; an editor of the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam from 1999 to its completion in 2006; and is currently associate editor for the Islamic Near East for both the journal (JAOS) and the monograph series of the American Oriental Society. She is co-editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law (Ashgate, 2014), of The Law Applied: Contextualizing the Islamic Shari'a (Tauris, 2008), and of The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution, and Progress (Harvard Law School, 2005).

"The author had access to archives of personal papers and letters, and to documentation in the publisher's records. This has enabled the writing of a work that brings a unique perspective to the history of an invaluable resource, and shines a fascinating light on its creation and backstory, a story that should be of interest to all who use the Encyclopaedia of Islam, for reference, research, or teaching." Roberta Dougherty, Librarian for the Middle East, Yale University Library

• List of FiguresSeries Editors' PrefacePrefaceAbbreviationsChapter One The First Editions1. The Planning Stage, 1892-18992. The International Association of Academies3. The Preparatory Stage, 1901-19084. The Thirds Stage, Snouck and Houtsma, 1909-19245. Weisinck Successed, 1924-1939Chapter Two. The Second Edition1. Constancy, 1948-19562. Under New Management, 1957-19973. Ascendancy of the Corporate Dollar, 1997-2006Chapter Three. The Publisher and the Process1. A Brief History of E. J. Brill2. Production processChapter Four. European Trials: Politics and ScholarshipConclusionAppendix One. Entries in the Spécimen d’une enclycopédie musulmane, 1898Appendix Two. Translation of Max Seligsohn's Critique of the First Edition, 1909Appendix Three. Supplementary PublicationsBibliographyIndex