Intellectual Traditions
Fifty Years in the East
Few fields of Islamic studies have witnessed as much progress in modern times as Ismaili studies, and in even fewer instances has the role of a single individual been as pivotal in initiating progress as that of the Russian scholar Wladimir Ivanow (1886–1970), whose memoirs are now published here for the first time. The breakthrough in modern Ismaili studies occurred mainly as a result of the recovery and study of a large number of texts relating to the field, which had not been available to the earlier generations of orientalists.
The Study of Shiʿi Islam
Between Reason and Revelation: Twin Wisdoms Reconciled
This is the first English translation of the last known philosophical work of the great eleventh-century Ismaili thinker, poet, and Fatimid emissary,Nasir-i Khusraw. Appointed from Cairo by command of the Fatimid
Fortresses of the Intellect - Ismaili and other Islamic Studies in Honour of Farhad Daftary
Dedicated to the achievements of Dr Farhad Daftary, a leading authority on Ismaili Studies and eminent scholar of Islamic history, this volume brings together a number of studies on Islamic intellectual and political history, particularly in the three areas where his scholarship has had the greatest impact – Ismaili Studies, Persian Studies and the wider context of Shi‘i Studies.
An Interview with Dr Nadia Eboo Jamal on Post-Mongol Period of Ismaili History
1. What was your motivation or source of inspiration to write this book? (00:00)2. What aspects of Ismaili philosophy would you say are apparent in Nizari Quhistani’s poetry? (01:46)
Degrees of Excellence: A Fatimid Treatise on Leadership in Islam
The Ikhwan al-Safa and their Rasail: An Introduction
The Ikhwan al-Safa’ (Brethren of Purity) were the anonymous adepts of a tenth-century esoteric fraternity of lettered urbanites that was principally based in Basra and Baghdad.
Encyclopaedia Islamica: Volume 1
Volume 1 covers Aba to Abu Hanifa
The book's introduction has been reproduced here:
