8vo. xxiv, 334 pp., French text, publisher’s original wrappers with d/w, biblio, index, a facsimile print, As New, Dar El-Machreq, Beirut, fourth edition, 2003.

Synopsis

The first edition appeared in 1929. Henri Lammens, a French monk who lived most of his life in Lebanon. He lectured at the Jesuit university of Beirut in Islamic history, and edited the periodical “ Al-Machreq” after the death of Louis Cheikho in 1927. Lammens published several books on the history of Islam, and the history of Syria and Lebanon.