Description:This one-volume work contains a summary of the subject-matter of "The Encyclopaedia of Islam". It should serve as a quick reference tool for those interested in the religion, the believers and the countries of the Islamic world. All entries are given in English: thus, names of Arabic origin which in the West were corrupted to another spelling, such as Ibn Sina to Avicenna, al-Kuhl to alcohol, are found under the latter term.