Mediaeval Isma'ili History and Thought,9780521451406

Mediaeval Isma'ili History and Thought

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ISBN13: 9780521451406
ISBN10: 052145140X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1996-05-31
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Until recently the Isma'ilis were judged almost exclusively on the basis of the hostile accounts of their Muslim enemies and the fanciful tales of the Crusaders. As a result, numerous misconceptions were disseminated about the teachings and practices of the Isma'ilis, known in European tradition as the Assassins. In the 1930s, however, authentic Isma'ili texts began to be recovered from private collections which shed new light on mediaeval Isma'ili history and thought. This collective volume, the first major effort of its kind in this branch of Islamic studies, brings together some of the original results of modern scholarship in the area, written by leading contemporary authorities, as well as distinguished Islamists.

Author Biography

Farhad Daftary is head of the Department of Academic Research and Publications at The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Note on transliteration and abbreviations xiii
Notes on the contributors xiv
Introduction: Isma`ilis and Isma`ili studies
1(20)
Farhad Daftary
PART I THE CLASSICAL PHASE
The Fatimids and the Qarmatis of Bahrayn
21(54)
Wilferd Madelung
The cosmology of the pre-Fatimid Isma`iliyya
75(10)
Heinz Halm
Abu Ya`qub al-Sijistani and the seven faculties of the Intellect
85(6)
Wilferd Madelung
The Isma`ili oath of allegiance (`ahd) and the `sessions of wisdom' (majalis al-hikma) in Fatimid times
91(26)
Heinz Halm
Al-Qadi al-Nu`man and Isma`ili jurisprudence
117(28)
Ismail K. Poonawala
A critique of Paul Casanova's dating of the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa'
145(8)
Abbas Hamdani
Portraits of self and others: Isma`ili perspectives on the history of religions
153(8)
Azim A. Nanji
An Isma`ili version of the heresiography of the seventy-two erring sects
161(20)
Paul E. Walker
PART II THE NIZARI PHASE
Hasan-i Sabbah and the origins of the Nizari Isma`ili movement
181(24)
Farhad Daftary
The power struggle between the Saljuqs and the Isma`ilis of Alamut, 487-518/1094-1124: The Saljuq perspective
205(16)
Carole Hillenbrand
The Isma`ilis of Quhistan and the Maliks of Nimruz or Sistan
221(10)
C. Edmund Bosworth
The philosopher/vizier: Khwaja Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and the Isma`ilis
231(16)
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
247(18)
Charles Melville
The Isma`ili ginans: Reflections on authority and authorship
265(16)
Ali S. Asani
The Nuqtawi movement of Mahmud Pisikhani and his Persian cycle of mystical-materialism
281(18)
Abbas Amanat
Bibliography 299(15)
Index 314

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