Ismaili history and intellectual traditions
/ Farhad Daftary
Ismaili history and intellectual traditions
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/ Farhad DaftaryEdition 1
978-1-138-28810-2
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Daftary, Farhad، نویسندهTitle and Author
Ismaili history and intellectual traditions / / Farhad DaftaryPublication Details
لندن : : Routledge، 2018مPhysical Description
vi, 300 p.؛ ; 23 cm..Subject
IsmailitesShiah
History
Islamic sects
History
Islamic countries
Intellectual life
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انگليسي.Shii 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 Ismaili movement.- The Ismaili dawa 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-numan, Ismaili law and Imami shiism.- The Iranian school of philosophical Ismailism.- The medieval Ismailis 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
