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DETAILS: "The Dai Hatim ibn Ibrahim al Hamidi and his Book `Tuhfat al Qulub'," Oriens XXIII/XXIV (1974): 258-300.

DETAILS: The Jews under the Fatimids. Oxford, 1920-22.

DETAILS: "The Druzes." In Religion in the Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969, 1976, pp. 330-348.

DETAILS: The Nizari Isma'ili Tradition in the Indo-Pakistan Subcontinent. Delmar: Caravan Books, 1978. 215 pp.

DETAILS: "The Fatimid Law of Inheritance," Malaya Law R. (1959): 245-264.

B.A. thesis ; DETAILS: "The Revolt of the Agha Khan Mahalatti and the Establishment of the Nizari Imamat in India." B.A. thesis, Victoria University of Manchester, 1979.

DETAILS: "On the Theories of Ibda and Ta'thir," Die Welt des Islam XX, no. 34, pp. 162-177.

DETAILS: "The Syrian Ismailis and the Doctrine of Metempsychosis," Milla Wa Milla IV (1964): 48-51.

DETAILS: "Rashidu'd-din Sinan," s.v., E.I. (old) III, p. 1123.

DETAILS: "Three Biographies of Kamal ad-Din," Mel. Koprulu (1955): 239-245.

DETAILS: "Some Unknown Ismaili Authors and their Works," J.R.A.S. (1937): 359-378.

DETAILS: "Medieval Ceramic Oil Lamps from Fustat," Ars Orientalis VIII (1970): 1-18.

DETAILS: "The Foreign Policy of Egypt under the Fatimids," Oostersch Genoots in Nederland, 6de Cong. (1929): 17-18.

The entire Thesis can now be downloaded - see links below the text. The first part contains the 60 pages introduction to the work, a must read.

This thesis contains a transliteration and a translation of the Das Avatara of Imam Shah ; Dr Gulshan Khakee died of cancer in Bombay at the age of 58, Saturday January 12, 2002. She graduated in teacher training in Nairobi where she taught at the AK Girl School and at the Kenya High School. She did her M.A. at Trinity College in Dublin - Ireland and her PhD. at Harvard in 1972.

Gulshan Khakee should be credited for collecting the manuscripts and books now in the Khojki collection of Harvard (catalogued by Ali Asani) While on a research tour in 1988, the Kaka of Pirana told us that he remembered when she came to visit Pirana and they gave her themanuscript of Das Avatar she had taken to Harvard.

She was among the pioniers of Ginanic research and some of her works are listed here. ; DETAILS: "The `Das Avatara' of Satpanthi Ismailis and Imam Shahis of Indo-Pakistan." Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1972. [Contains a transliteration and translation of the Das Avatara of Imam Shah from a manuscript dated 1736AD.] She offered a copy of her Thesis to The Heritage Society on 20th January 1991. She was one of our lecturesr at the SOS Khojki Conference organized in Toronto by the Ismaili Heritage Society now on www.ismaili.net.

DETAILS: "The Idea of Guidance in Islam," I.Q. III (1956): 139-158.