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Title Fortresses of the intellect : Ismaili and other Islamic studies in honour of Farhad Daftary / edited by Omar Alí-de-Unzaga
Published London ; New York : I B Tauris & Co Ltd ; in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, [2011]
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 600 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Introduction : a biographical sketch / Omar Alí de Unzaga -- Bibliography of the works of Farhad Daftary -- Persian, the other sacred language of Islam : some brief notes / Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi -- Sunni claims to Imam Jaʻfar al-Ṣādiq / Hamid Algar -- The Kitāb al-rusūm waʼl-izdiwāj waʼl-tartīb attributed to ʻAbdān (d. 289/899) : edition of the Arabic text and translation / Wilferd Madelung and Paul E. Walker -- Abū Tammām on the Mubayyiḍa / Patricia Crone -- The Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ : between al-Kindī and al-Fārābī / Abbas Hamdani -- Ibdaʻ, divine imperative and prophecy in the Rasāʼil Ikhwān al-Ṣafā / Carmela Baffioni -- Some aspects of the external relations of the Qarāmiṭa in Baḥrayn / István Hajnal -- A distinguished Slav eunuch of the early Fatimid period : al Ustādh Jawdhar / Hamid Haji -- Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʻmān and his refutation of Ibn Qutayba / Ismail K. Poonawala -- The Risāla al-Mudhhiba attributed to al-Qāḍī al-Nuʻmān : important evidence for the adoption of Neoplatonism by Fatimid Ismailism at the time of al-Muʻizz? / Daniel De Smet -- Cosmos into verse : two examples of Islamic philosophical poetry in Persian / Alice C. Hunsberger -- Early evidence for the reception of Nāṣir-i Khusraw's poetry in Sufism : ʻAyn al-Quḍāt's letter on the Raʻlīmīs / Hermann Landolt -- A dream come true : empowerment through dreams reflecting Fatimid-Sulayhid relations / Delia Cortese -- From the "Moses of reason" to the "Khiḍr of the Resurrection" : the oxymoronic transcendent in Shahrastānī's Majlis-i maktūb -- dar Khwārazm / Leonard Lewisohn -- Poems of the Resurrection : Ḥasan-i Maḥmūd-i Kātib and his Dīwān-i Qāʼimiyyāt / S. Jalal Badakhchani -- Further notes on the Turkish names in Abuʼl-Faḍl Bayhaqī's Tārīkh-i Masʻūdī / C. Edmund Bosworth -- A book list from a seventh/thirteenth-century manuscript found in Bāmyān / Iraj Afshar -- What's in a name? : Tughtegin, "the Minister of the Antichrist"? / Carole Hillenbrand -- Safavids and "subalterns" : the reclaiming of voices / Andrew J. Newman -- Compromise and conciliation in the Akhbārī-Uṣūlī dispute : Yūsuf al-Baḥrānī's assessment of ʻAbd Allāh al-Samāhījī's Munyat al-Mumārisīn / Robert Gleave
Summary Dedicated to the achievements of 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
The volume covers issues in the fields of history, thought and language focusing, though not exclusively, on the intellectual contributions of the Ismailis and their role in broader Islamic history. It includes discussions on subjects ranging from early Ismaili texts, the scholars of the Fatimid and Alamat eras of Ismaili history, Persian contributions to Islamic culture and literature, the presence of the Central Asian Turks and the Franks in the Islamic lands, and aspects of Shi'i thought in the Safavid era
Notes Omar Ali-de-Unzaga is the Coordinator of the Qur'anic Studies Unit at The Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS), London. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge. --Book Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-571) and index
Notes Text in English; one article in Arabic
Print version record
Subject Daftary, Farhad
SUBJECT Daftary, Farhad. idszbz
Subject Islam -- Study and teaching.
Islamic civilization -- Study and teaching.
Islam.
RELIGION / Islam / General
Islam -- Study and teaching
Islamic civilization -- Study and teaching
Islam
Ismailiten
Islam
Ismailiten
Festschrift
Ismailiten.
Islam.
Form Electronic book
Author Alí-de-Unzaga, Omar, editor.
Daftary, Farhad
Institute of Ismaili Studies.
LC no. 2011435428
ISBN 9781786724663
1786724669