2017 M. Ali Lakhani Faith and Ethics Shi‘i Ismaili Muslims are unique in following for centuries a living, hereditary Imam (spiritual leader), whom they believe to be…
2017 Shainool Jiwa The Fatimids World of Islam Emerging from a period of long seclusion, the leader of the burgeoning community of Ismaili Shi‘i Muslims was declared the…
2017 Farhad Daftary The Fatimid Caliphate Ismaili Heritage Series The Fatimids ruled much of the Mediterranean world for over two centuries. From the conquest of Ifriqīya in 909 to…
2017 Farhad Daftary Ismaili History and Intellectual Traditions The Ismailis represent an important Shiʿi Muslim community with rich intellectual and literary traditions. The complex history of the Ismailis…
2017 Asma Hilali The Sanaa Palimpsest Qur’anic Studies Series This volume provides a new annotated edition of the two layers of the ‘Sanaa palimpsest’, one of the oldest Qur’an…
2017 Carmela Baffioni Sciences of the Soul and Intellect, Part III Epistles of the Brethren of Purity The Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (Brethren of Purity), the anonymous adepts of a tenth-century esoteric fraternity based in Basra and Baghdad, hold…
2017 Nuha Alshaar The Qur’an and Adab Qur’anic Studies Series Though there have been many studies on the Qur’an’s importance in tafsīr (Qur’anic commentary), there are comparatively few which look…
2017 S. J. Badakhchani Spiritual Resurrection in Shiʿi Islam Ismaili Texts and Translations Series Of the few surviving Nizari Ismaili texts from the Alamūt period, the Haft bāb (Seven Chapters), which outlines the basic…
