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Mediaeval Ismaʻili history and thought

Until recently, the Isma`ilis were judged almost exclusively on the basis of hostile Muslim and European sources. This volume, written by leading contemporary authorities in the field, sheds a more realistic light on their hist

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996
Subjects:
Ismailites > History
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Call Number :BP 195.I8 M43 1996
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Isma'ilis and Isma'ili studies / Farhad Daftary
  • The Fatimids and the Qarmatis of Bahrayn / Wilferd Madelung
  • The cosmology of the pre-Fatimid Isma'iliyya / Heinz Halm
  • Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani and the seven faculties of the Intellect / Wilferd Madelung
  • The Isma'ili oath of allegiance ('abd) and the 'sessions of wisdom' (majalis al-hikma) in Fatimid times / Heinz Halm
  • Al-Qadi al-Nu'man and Isma'ili jurisprudence / Ismail K. Poonawala
  • A critique of Paul Casanova's dating of the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa / Abbas Hamdani
  • Portraits of self and others: Isma'ili perspectives on the history of religions / Azim A. Nanji
  • An Isma'ili version of the heresiography of the seventy-two erring sects / Paul E. Walker
  • Hasan-i Sabbah and the origins of the Nizari Isma'ili movement / Farhad Daftary
  • The power struggle between the Saljuqs and the Isma'ilis of Alamut, 487-518/1094-1124: The Saljuq perspective / Carole Hillenbrand
  • The Isma'ilis of Quhistan and the Maliks of Nimruz or Sistan / C. Edmund Bosworth
  • The philosopher/vizier: Khwaja Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and the Isma'ilis / Hamid Dabashi
  • 'Sometimes by the sword, sometimes by the dagger': The role of the Isma'ilis in Mamluk-Mongol relations in the 8th/14th century / Charles Melville
  • The Isma'ili ginans: Reflections on authority and authorship / Ali S. Asani
  • The Nuqtawi movement of Mahmud Pisikhani and his Persian cycle of mystical-materialism / Abbas Amanat

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