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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      02 November 2009
      30 July 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511520648
      9780521441292
      9780521060820
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511520648
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.449kg, 220 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.33kg, 220 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
      Subjects:
      Middle East Studies, Islam, Area Studies, Religion, Middle East History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
    Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Islam, Area Studies, Religion, Middle East History
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    The Ismailis, among whom are the followers of the Aga Khan, rose to prominence during the fourth Islamic/tenth Christian century. They developed a remarkably successful intellectual programme to sustain and support their political activities, promoting demands of Islamic doctrine together with the then newly imported sciences from abroad. The high watermark of this intellectual movement is best illustrated in the writings of the Ismaili theoretician Abu Ya´qub al-Sijistani. Using both published and manuscript writings of al-Sijistani that have hitherto been largely hidden, forgotten or ignored, Dr Paul Walker reveals the scholar's major contribution to the development of philosophical Shiism. He analyses his role in the Ismaili mission (da'wa) of that time and critically assesses the major themes in his combination of philosophy and religious doctrine.

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