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Edited by Tazim R. Kassam and Francoise Mallison, Primus Books, 2010, Revised Edition, xxviii, 226 p, 7 illus, ISBN : 81-908918-7-5

DETAILS: "Tombs of Some Persian Ismaili Imams," J.B.B.R.A.S. n.s. XIV (1938): 49-62.

DETAILS: "The Founding of Cairo," Mill. du Caire.

DETAILS: "Translation of Two Unpublished Arabic Documents Relating to the Doctrines of the Ismailis and other Batinian Sects," J.A.O.S. II (1850/51): 257-324. [Contains a translation of The Attack of the Partisan of Justice upon the Party of the Isma'iliyeh, and the Angry Eye upon the Party of the Karmateh written by Esh-Shafi'y.]

DETAILS: "The Ginan Tradition among the Nizari Ismailis, its Value as Source of their History," Actes XXIX C.I.O. (1975). Etudes Arabes et Islamiques I. Histoire et civilisation III, pp. 143-146.

DETAILS: Tribes and Castes of Bombay. Bombay Government Central Press, 1920. Vol. 2: 217-230, Khojas; 197-208, Bohoras.

DETAILS: "The Ismailis in Uganda." In Essays on Ugandan Asians, ed. Michael Twadle. London: Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 1975. Pp. 30-52.

DETAILS: "The Ismailis of Syria Today," J.C.A.S. LII (1952): 69-77.

DETAILS: "Modernisation and Change in the Nizari Ismaili Community in East Africa. - A Perspective," J.R.A. VI (1976): pp. 123-139.

DETAILS: "The Ismailis or Maulais of the Hindu Kush," R.C.A.J. XXII (1935): 641-645.

Polemics on the Origin of the Fatimid Caliphate. London, 1924. 232 pp. Karachi: Indus Publications, 1979. Distinguishes between pro- and anti-Fatimid sources related to their genealogy.

DETAILS: "The Ismailis Sect in London (Religious Institutions and Social Change)," Religion (Spring 1978).

Biography and work of Qadi an Nu'man ; DETAILS: "Qadi an Nu'man, the Fatimid Jurist and Author," J.R.A.S. (1934): 1-32. Biography and work of Qadi an Nu'man.

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.