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  • 2013
  • Farhad Daftary

A History of Shiʿi Islam

Shi‘i Heritage Series
This book is also available OPEN ACCESS to download or read online for free. Shiʿi Muslims have played a crucial…
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  • 2015
  • Orkhan Mir-Kasimov

Words of Power

Shi‘i Heritage Series
This book is also available OPEN ACCESS to download or read online for free. The Jāwidān-nāma-yi kabīr (‘Great Book of…
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  • 2017
  • Shainool Jiwa

The Fatimids 1

World of Islam
Also available as an audiobook Emerging from a period of long seclusion, the leader of the burgeoning community of Ismaili…
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  • 2007
  • Annabel Keeler

Sufi Hermeneutics

Qur’anic Studies Series
This book examines the Sufi approach to Qur’anic interpretation as exemplified in a twelfth-century Persian Qur’an commentary, Rashīd al-Dīn Maybudī’s…
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  • 2007
  • Farhad Daftary

The Ismāʿīlīs

The Ismāʿīlīs represent the second largest Shīʿī Muslim community after the Twelvers, and are today scattered throughout more than twenty-five…
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  • 2014
  • M. Brett Wilson

Translating the Qur’an in an Age of Nationalism

Qur’anic Studies Series
Over the course of the past two centuries, the central text of Islam has undergone twin revolutions. Around the globe,…
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  • 2021
  • Raficq S. Abdulla

al-sharīʿa al-Islāmiyya fī ʿālam mutaghayyir

This is an Arabic translation of Understanding Sharia: Islamic Law in a Globalised World. Description from Understanding Sharia Sharia has…
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  • 2004
  • Farhad Daftary

Ismaili Literature

Until the middle of the 20th century, the Ismailis were studied and judged almost exclusively on the basis of evidence…
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  • 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…
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  • 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…
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  • 2000
  • Alice C. Hunsberger

Nasir Khusraw, the Ruby of Badakhshan

Ismaili Heritage Series
This book is also available OPEN ACCESS to download or read online for free. One of the foremost poets of…
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  • 2012
  • Travis Zadeh

The Vernacular Qur’an

Qur’anic Studies Series
This book examines how early juridical and theological debates on translatability and the nature of revelation and language informed the…
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  • 2023
  • Shainool Jiwa

The Fatimids 2

World of Islam
Also available as an audiobook One of most prosperous and influential dynasties of the Muslim world, the Fatimids (909–1171) were…
  • 13 Mar 2024
  • Scholarly Article
  • Lifelong Learning Articles

Women Who Have Impacted Ismaili History

Discover the stories of four prominent women in Ismaili history: Sitt al-Mulk, Queen Arwa, Mata Salamat, and Imam Begum
A man in red shirt, blue robe and coloured turban sitting on a mat looking in distance, and a palm tree in the background with a sunset scenery
  • 01 Jan 2022
  • Scholarly Article
  • Philosophy

Transcendence and Distinction: Metaphoric Process in Ismaili Muslim Thought