Ismaili History and Intellectual Traditions

Shi?i communities in history -- The study of the Ismailis : phases and issues -- Ismaili history and literary traditions -- Idris ?Imad al-Din and medieval Ismaili historiography -- A major schism in the early Isma?ili movement -- The Ismaili da?wa under the Fatimids -- The concept of ujja in Ismaili thought -- Cyclical time and sacred history in medieval Ismaili thought -- ?Ali in classical Ismaili theology -- Al-qadi al-nu?man, Isma?ili law and Imami shi?ism -- The Iranian school of philosophical Ismailism -- The medieval Isma?ilis of the Iranian lands -- The "order of the assassins" : J. von Hammer and the Orientalist misrepresentations of the Nizari Ismailis -- Ismaili-Seljuq relations : conflict and stalemate -- Sinan and the Nizari Ismailis of Syria -- Hidden Imams and Mahdis in Ismaili history -- Religious identity, dissimulation and assimilation : the Ismaili experience

• | Author: Farhad Daftary
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Aug 15, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 300 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138288101
• | ISBN-13: 9781138288102