An anthology of Ismaili literature : a Shiʻi vision of Islam /: a Shiʻi vision of Islam. (©2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Hermann Landolt, Samira Sheikh & Kutub Kassam.
• Other Names: Landolt, Hermann; Sheikh, Samira, 1971-; Kassam, Kutub
• Contents: Ismaili history and literary traditions / Farhad Daftary -- pt. 1. History and memoir. Introduction / Samira Sheikh -- Ibn al-Haytham: Kitāb al-munāẓarāt = The book of discussions -- Jaʻfar b. ʻAlī: Sīrat al-ḥājib Jaʻfar = Account of the chamberlain Jaʻfar -- al-Qāḍī al-Nuʻmān: Iftitāḥ al-daʻwa = Commencement of the mission -- Idrīs ʻImād al-Dīn: ʻUyūn al-akhbār = Choice stories -- al-Muʼayyad fiʼl-Dīn al-Shīrāzī: Sīrat al-Muʼayyad = Autobiography of al-Muʼayyad -- Nāṣir-i Khusraw: Safar-nāma = Book of travels -- Pīr Sabzālī: Madhya Eshiyā nī rasik vigato = Journey to central Asia -- pt. 2. Faith and thought. Introduction / Hermann Landolt -- Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī: al-Risāla al-durriyya = The brilliant epistle -- Abū Yaʻqūb al-Sijistānī: Kitāb al-yanābīʻ = The book of wellsprings: On the pure identity of the originator -- Nāṣir-i Khusraw: Gushāyish wa rahāyish = Knowledge and liberation -- Abū Yaʻqūb al-Sijistānī: Kashf al-maḥjūb = Unveiling the hidden: That the beauty or adornment of nature is spiritual -- Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ: Rasāʼil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ = Epistles of the brethren of purity -- Abū Yaʻqūb al-Sijistānī: Kashf al-maḥjūb = Unveiling the hidden: On the fifth creation (prophethood) -- al-Muʼayyad fiʼl-Dīn al-Shīrāzī: al-Majālis al-Muʼayyadiyya = The discourses of al-Muʼayyad -- Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm al-Naysābūrī: Kitāb ithbāt al-imāma = Affirming the imamate -- Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī: al-Maṣābīḥ fī ithbāt al-imāma = Lights to illuminate the proof of the imamate: in proof of the imamate and of its necessity -- Ḥasan-i Ṣabbāḥ: al-Fuṣūl al-arbaʻa = The four chapters -- Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī: Rawḍa-yi taslīm = Paradise of submission: Concerning various kinds of submission -- Jaʻfar b. Manṣūr al-Yaman: Kitāb al-ʻālim waʼl-ghulām = Book of the master and the disciple -- Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī: Sayr wa sulūk = Contemplation and action -- Abū Yaʻqūb al-Sijistānī: Kitāb al-yanābīʻ = The book of wellsprings: On the manner of the transmission of spiritual inspiration to inspired persons in the corporeal world -- Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī: al-Maṣābīḥ fī ithbāt al-imāma = Lights to illuminate the proof of the imamate: In proof of the interpretation of the revelation ... -- al-Qāḍī al-Nuʻmān: Asās al-taʼwīl = The foundation of spiritual hermeneutics -- Abū Yaʻqūb al-Sijistānī: Kitāb al-yanābīʻ = The book of wellsprings: On the meaning of the profession of faith ... -- Nāṣir-i Khusraw: Wajh-i dīn = The face of religion -- al-Qāḍī al-Nuʻmān: Daʻāʼim al-Islām = The pillars of Islam -- Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm al-Naysābūrī: al-Risāla al-mūjaza al-kāfiya fī adab al-duʻāt = A code of conduct for dāʻīs -- Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī: Rawḍa-yi taslīm = Paradise of submission: On the refinement of character -- Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī: Tawallā wa tabarrā = Solidarity and dissociation -- Khayrkhwāh-i Harātī: Risāla = The epistle -- pt. 3. Poetry. Introduction / Khutub Kassam -- Ibn Hāniʼ al-Andalusī -- al-Muʼayyad fiʼl-Dīn al-Shīrāzī -- Nāṣir-i Khusraw -- Ḥasan-i Maḥmūd-i Kātib -- Nizārī Quhistānī -- Persian poets of the post-Alamūt era -- The poetry of central Asia -- Pīr Shams -- Pīr Ṣadr al-Dīn -- Pīr Ḥasan Kabīr al-Dīn -- Nūr Muḥammad Shāh.
• Publisher Details: London New York : I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies
• Publication Date: 2008
• Copyright Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxv, 348 pages, [12] pages of plates), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 892.708038297822; Ismaili literature -- Translations into English; Shiite literature -- Translations into English; LITERARY CRITICISM -- African; Ismaili literature; Shiite literature; Ismailiten; Literatur; Electronic books; Translations; Anthologie; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441605795; 1441605797; 9780857710406; 0857710400
• Related ISBNs: 9781845117948; 1845117948
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-338) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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