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| Addenda to Secondary Sources in Ismāʿīlī Studies: The Case of the Omissions | To date, there have been two major bibliographies of secondary sources in Ismāʿīlī studies, namely Nagib Tajdin’s A Bibliography of Ismailism1 and Farhad Daftary’s Ismāʿīlī Literature: A Bibliography of Sources and Studies (hereafter referred to as Ismāʿīlī Literature).2 The present bibliography is an attempt to identify sources omitted by these two works within the limits specified below. The purpose of the bibliography, then, is to provide students, scholars, and specialists with organized access to the omissions, thereby supporting research, teaching, and learning | Addenda to Secondary Sources in Ismāʿīlī Studies: The Case of the Omissions | |
| Al-Shaykh al-Ṭūsī: His Writings on Theology and their Reception* | While the theological thought of Twelver Shiʿism during the 3rd/9th and 4th/10th centuries has been studied relatively well (as much as is possible on the basis of the few, mostly secondary sources that are preserved),1 little is known about its doctrinal | Al-Shaykh al-Ṭūsī: His Writings on Theology and their Reception | |
| Al-‘Aziz bi’llah | Al-‘Aziz bi’llah Abu Mansur Nizar b. Abu Tamim Ma‘add al-Mu‘izz li-Din Allah (955–996 CE), the fifth Fatimid imam-caliph was the first sovereign of his dynasty to begin his rule in Egypt. Al- ‘Aziz’s reign epitomises the cultural, intellectual and architectural efflorescence of Fatimid rule in Egypt. It also established the Fatimids as a vibrant Mediterranean Empire, pursuing trade, diplomacy and warfare with their Byzantine, ‘Abbasid and Andalusian Umayyad counterparts. | Al-'Aziz Bi'llah | |
| Alamūt, Ismailism and Khwāja Qāsim Tushtarī’s Recognizing God | Drawing extensively on the testimony of the Persian historians of the seventh-eighth hijri centuries (corresponding to the thirteen-fourteenth centuries of the Christian era), this article sketches a detailed picture of several personalities involved in founding the nascent Ismaili state centred at Alamūt in the fifth/eleventh century. This background sets the stage for analyzing a new manuscript source documenting Ismaili history and thought of this period, Khwāja Qāsim Tushtarī’s Recognizing God | Alamūt, Ismailism and Khwājah Qāsim Tushtarī’s Recognizing God | |
| Alamūt, Ismailism and Khwāja Qāsim Tushtarī’s Recognizing God | Drawing extensively on the testimony of the Persian historians of the seventh-eighth hijri centuries (corresponding to the thirteen-fourteenth centuries of the Christian era), this article sketches a detailed picture of several personalities involved in founding the nascent Ismaili state centred at Alamūt in the fifth/eleventh century. This background sets the stage for analyzing a new manuscript source documenting Ismaili history and thought of this period, Khwāja Qāsim Tushtarī’s Recognizing God | Alamūt, Ismailism and Khwājah Qāsim Tushtarī’s Recognizing God | |
| An Introduction to Chogadia Ginans | By Mumtaz Ali Tajddin Sadiq Ali The word gadi means "time", corresponding with the Koranic term, sa’a. During the Ancient times in India, day and night were measured in gadi instead of hours or minutes. According to the Holy Koran: "They are indeed in loss who give lie to the meeting with God until when the hour (al-sa’a) comes upon them all of a sudden." (6:31) Here, the hour (al-sa’a) stands for the gadi (moment) of death, which is also depicted in the following lines of a ginan:- Sayan’ji mor’e dar lago ek din’ko | An Introduction to Chogadia Ginans | |
| An Ismaili Interpretation of the Fall of Adam | During a recent stay in Cairo, I found in the Taimuriya library a manuscript copy of an interesting Ismaili work entitled Kitabu'l-idah wa'l-Bayan, by the Yemenite da'i Husain ibn 'Ali (*1) | An Ismaili Interpretation of the Fall of Adam | |
| Antiquities of the Illuminati - 4. THE PURE BRETHREN OF BASRA | 4. THE PURE BRETHREN OF BASRA: IT IS an impossible task, presenting an entire history of schismatic Islamic | Antiquities of the Illuminati | |
| Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy and the Myth of the Hachichins: Orientalizing hashish in nineteenth-century France | Building on recent historical scholarship on drugs and European empires, this study shows how early French conceptions | Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy and the Myth of the Hachichins: Orientalizing hashish in nineteenth-century France | |
| Avichal allah avichal khalak - Meaning and comments by Mumtaz Ali Tajdddin | The meaning of the Ginan " Avichal Allah, Avichal Khalaq" of Pir Sadardin. (d.1416) the ginans is 13 couplets is translated and commented line by line and on its concepts. The ginan is in Hindi that incorporates many Persian words and some Arabic ones. Download link for the PDF file is given here below. | Avichal Allah, Avichal Khalaq | |
| The Aga Khan Case: Religion and Identity in Colonial India Cambridge | The Aga Khan Case straddles several disciplinary boundaries, including history, textual analysis, religious studies, and anthropology. Her ambition is to examine change in religious tradition through legal and historical textual analysis. She traces the transformation of the Khoja Satpanth (true path) from an Indic “dissonant” Islam at the beginning of the nineteenth century to a modern, reformist, and sectarian (or what she calls “identitarian”) Islam in the middle years of the twentieth century. | The Aga Khan Case: Religion and Identity in Colonial India | |
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