2021 Daryoush Mohammad Poor Command and Creation Ismaili Texts and Translations Series The eminent Muslim scholar al-Shahrastānī, who may have been a crypto-Ismaili, wrote the Majlis-i maktūb in the final years of…
2021 Wilferd Madelung Affirming the Imamate Ismaili Texts and Translations Series The two brief works edited and translated here for the first time are primary material from the years before the…
2018 Daniel Beben The First Aga Khan Ismaili Texts and Translations Series Muḥammad Ḥasan al-Ḥusaynī (1804–1881), also known as Ḥasan ʿAlī Shāh, was the 46th Imam of the Nizārī Ismailis and the…
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…
2015 Wilferd Madelung Avicenna’s Allegory on the Soul Ismaili Texts and Translations Series The Persian philosopher Ibn Sina (d. 1037), known in Europe as Avicenna, was arguably the greatest master of Aristotelian thought…
2013 Sami Makarem The Shiʿi Imamate Ismaili Texts and Translations Series The Tathbīt al-imāma attributed to the Fatimid Caliph-Imam al-Manṣūr (334–341/946–953) is an important early Ismaili treatise on the legitimacy of…
2013 Shainool Jiwa The Founder of Cairo Ismaili Texts and Translations Series The reign of the founder of Cairo, the fourth Fatimid Imam-caliph al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh (953–975 CE) marks a watershed in…
2012 Ḥātim b. Ibrāhīm al-Ḥāmidī The Precious Gift of the Hearts and Good Cheer for Those in Distress: On the Organisation and History of the Yamani Fatimid Da‘wa Ismaili Texts and Translations Series The original work, Risālat Tuḥfat al-qulūb, was written at a time of great change. It followed the collapse of Fatimid…
