Mediaeval Isma'ili History and Thought

Table of Contents

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.

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