1998 Farhad Daftary A Short History of the Ismailis The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys A major Shīʿī Muslim community with a long and eventful history, the Ismailis were until recently studied primarily on the…
1998 Nasir al-Din al-Tusi Contemplation and Action Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī, a renowned Shiʿi Muslim scholar of the thirteenth century, produced a wide range of writings in different…
1998 Nasir-i Khusraw Knowledge and Liberation Naṣīr Khusraw was a leading Ismaili poet and theologian-philosopher of the eleventh century. His writings have had a major formative…
1998 Rafique H. Keshavjee Mysticism and the Plurality of Meaning Occasional Papers To what extent does the mystical path necessitate a withdrawal from the world' Is there a contradiction between the demands…
1998 Aziz Esmail The Poetics of Religious Experience Occasional Papers The poetics of religious experience investigates creativity of a particular kind, namely explorations in the language of symbols and metaphors,…
1999 Paul E. Walker Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī Ismaili Heritage Series A major Ismaili Muslim scholar and writer who flourished during the first half of the eleventh century AD, Ḥamīd al-Dīn…
2000 Farhad Daftary Intellectual Traditions in Islam Intellectual Traditions in Islam brings together a number of leading scholars to examine the central role of reason and intellect…
2000 Wilferd Madelung The Advent of the Fatimids Ismaili Texts and Translations Series This work is a personal memoir composed by Ibn al-Haytham, a Shi‘i Muslim scholar from North Africa, who records the…
