2000 Delia Cortese Ismaili and Other Arabic Manuscripts Ismaili and Other Arabic Manuscripts is a supplement to Adam Gacek’s two-volume Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of…
2000 Alice C. Hunsberger Nasir Khusraw, the Ruby of Badakhshan Ismaili Heritage Series One of the foremost poets of the Persian language and a major Ismaili thinker and writer, Nasir Khusraw has attracted…
2000 Arzina R. Lalani Early Shī‘ī Thought Imam Muḥammad al-Bāqir was one of the most erudite Muslims of his age, and played a significant role in the…
2001 Farhad Daftary Mediaeval Ismaʿili History and Thought Until recently the Ismaʿilis were judged almost exclusively on the basis of the hostile accounts of their Muslim enemies and…
2001 Nasir-i Khusraw Make a Shield from Wisdom Persian literature, especially its poetry, constitutes one of the world’s great literary traditions. Amongst the foremost, but in the West…
2001 Valerie Gonzalez Beauty and Islam This illustrated volume explores aspects of aesthetics in classical Islamic thought set in the context of contemporary theories. Valérie Gonzalez…
2001 Ayatollah Ja‘far Sobhani Doctrines of Shi‘i Islam This text offers a wide-ranging overview of the principal tenets of Shi‘i Islam. It is useful not only as an…
2001 Muhammad al-Shahrastani Struggling with the Philosopher Ismaili Texts and Translations Series One of the most learned and enigmatic scholars of medieval Islam, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Shahrastānī (d. 548/1153) is best…
