Abstract: 1. Introduction: Isma'ilis and Isma'ili studies Farhad Daftary Part I. The Classical Phase: 2. The Fatimids and the Qarmatis of Bahrayn Wilferd Madelung 3. The cosmology of the pre-Fatimid Isma'iliyya Heinz Halm 4. Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani and the seven faculties of the intellect Wilfred Madelung 5. The Isma'ili oath of allegiance ('ahd) and the 'sessions of wisdom' (majalis al-hikma) in Fatimid times Heinz Halm 6. Al-Qadi al-Nu'man and Isma'ili jurisprudence Ismail K. Poonawala 7. A critique of Paul Casanova's dating of the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' Abbas Hamdani 8. Portraits of self and others: Isma'ili perspectives on the history of religions Azim A. Nanji 9. An Isma'ili version of the heresiography of the seventy-two erring sects Paul E. Walker Part II. The Nizari Phase: 10. Hasan-i Sabbah and the origins of the Nizari Isma'ili movement Farhad Daftary 11. The power struggle between the Saljuqs and the Isma'ilis of Alamut, 487-518/1094-1124: The Saljuq perspective Carole Hillenbrand 12. The Isma'ilis of Quhistan and the Maliks of Nimruz or Sistan C. Edmund Bosworth 13. The philosopher/vizier: Khwaja Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and the Isma'ilis Hamid Dabashi 14. '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 15. The Isma'ili ginans: reflections on authority and authorship Ali S. Asani 16. The Nuqtawi movement of Mahmud Pisikhani and his Persian cycle of mystical-materialism Abbas Amanat.
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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