Mediaeval Ismaʻili history and thought /
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| Imprint: | New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996. |
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| Description: | xviii, 331 p. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2463459 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Note on transliteration and abbreviations
- Notes on the contributors
- 1. Introduction: Ismailis and Ismaili studies
- Part I. The Classical Phase
- 2. The Fatimids and the Qarmatis of Bahrayn
- 3. The cosmology of the pre-Fatimid Ismailiyya
- 4. Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani and the seven faculties of the Intellect
- 5. The Ismaili oath of allegiance (ahd) and the 'sessions of wisdom' (majalis al-hikma) in Fatimid times
- 6. Al-Qadi al-Numan and Ismaili jurisprudence
- 7. A critique of Paul Casanova's dating of the Rasail Ikhwan al-Safa
- 8. Portraits of self and others: Ismaili perspectives on the history of religions
- 9. An Ismaili version of the heresiography of the seventy-two erring sects
- Part II. The Nizari Phase
- 10. Hasan-i Sabbah and the origins of the Nizari Ismaili movement
- 11. The power struggle between the Saljuqs and the Ismailis of Alamut, 487-518/1094-1124: The Saljuq perspective
- 12. The Ismailis of Quhistan and the Maliks of Nimruz or Sistan
- 13. The philosopher/vizier: Khwaja Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and the Ismailis
- 14. 'Sometimes by the sword, sometimes by the dagger': The role of the Ismailis in Mamluk-Mongol relations in the 8th/14th century
- 15. The Ismaili ginans: Reflections on authority and authorship
- 16. The Nuqtawi movement of Mahmud Pisikhani and his Persian cycle of mystical-materialism
- Bibliography
- Index