2019 Orkhan Mir-Kasimov Intellectual Interactions in the Islamic World Shi‘i Heritage Series How has the Ismaili branch of Shiʿi Islam interacted with other Islamic communities throughout history? The groups and movements that…
2017 Samer F. Traboulsi On Companionship and Belief 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…
2016 Annabel Keeler The Spirit and the Letter Qur’anic Studies Series This volume is the first to focus specifically on esoteric interpretation as a phenomenon in the field of Qur’anic exegesis…
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…
2015 Stephen Burge The Meaning of the Word Qur’anic Studies Series The basic intention of Qur’anic exegesis (tafsīr) is to understand what the text of the Qur'an means. Before attempting to…
2014 Farhad Daftary The Study of Shiʿi Islam Shi‘i Heritage Series Shiʿi Islam, with its rich and extensive history, has played a crucial role in the evolution of Islam as both…
2009 Toby Mayer Keys to the Arcana Qur’anic Studies Series This remarkable twelfth-century Qur’anic commentary by Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Shahrastānī is preserved in a single manuscript in Tehran and…
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…
