1996 Faquir M. Hunzai Shimmering Light Poetry, often of great beauty and subtlety, has always been central to the spiritual life of Islam, particularly among Sufis…
1997 Heinz Halm The Fatimids and their Traditions of Learning Ismaili Heritage Series The Fatimid period was the golden age of Ismaili thought and literature, when the Shiʿite Ismaili Imams ruled over the…
1998 Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III Aga Khan III (1877–1957) was the 48th Imam of the Shiʿi Ismaili Muslims. Through his knowledge of Eastern as well…
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,…