Fortresses of the intellect : Ismaili and other Islamic studies in honour of Farhad Daftary /: Ismaili and other Islamic studies in honour of Farhad Daftary. (©2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Omar Alí-de-Unzaga.
• Other Names: Alí-de-Unzaga, Omar; Daftary, Farhad; Institute of Ismaili Studies.
• 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.
• Publisher Details: London New York : I B Tauris & Co Ltd in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies
• Publication Date: 2011
• Copyright Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 600 pages), illustrations, map
• Subjects: 297.071; Islam -- Study and teaching; Islamic civilization -- Study and teaching; Islam; Ismailiten; Islam; Ismailiten; Festschrift; Ismailiten; Islam; Islam -- Study and teaching; Islamic civilization -- Study and teaching; RELIGION / Islam / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786724663; 1786724669
• Related ISBNs: 9781848856264; 1848856261
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-571) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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