(Paperback)
By: Rahim Gholami
ISBN: 9780755653911
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Verena Klemm
ISBN: 9781780761268
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Wilferd Madelung
ISBN: 9780755637324
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Wilferd Madelung
ISBN: 9780755637317
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Eric Ormsby
ISBN: 9781780761329
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dr. Daryoush Mohammad Poor
ISBN: 9780755602971
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Dr. Daryoush Mohammad Poor
ISBN: 9780755602964
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Arzina R. Lalani
ISBN: 9781845111458
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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One of the distinguished scholars of his time, Ahmad b Ibrahim al-Naysaburi lived during the height of Fatimid rule in Egypt. He came from Nishapur, the centre of the Ismaili da'wa in Khurasan, a thriving centre of learning particularly noted for its use of rationalistic philosophy. This work studies this scholar of the early 5th/11th century.
(Hardback, Annotated edition)
By: Hamid Haji
ISBN: 9781850438854
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Reflects the social and political conditions which prevailed when the Fatimids began to consolidate their rule. This book, a translation of the "Iftitah al-Da'wa", is an important primary source for understanding the emergence of the Fatimid state in the early years of the tenth century.
(Hardback, Annotated edition)
By: Mansur al-Azizi al-Jawdhari
ISBN: 9781780762685
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Paul E. Walker
ISBN: 9781845116040
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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About 405/1015 Ismaili da'i Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani composed a treatise he called Lights to Illuminate the Proof of the Imamate (al-Masabih fi ithbat al-imama) in the bold hope of convincing Fakhr al-Mulk, the Shi'i wazir of the Buyids in Baghdad, to abandon the Abbasids and support the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim. This work offers a translation.
(Hardback)
By: M. Adra
ISBN: 9781848859135
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A distinguished scholar, author and statesman, al-Mu'ayyad fi'l-Din al-Shirazi (1000-1078 CE) lived during one of the most turbulent periods in Islamic history. This work covers a range of political and religious issues, from al-Mu'ayyad's intellectual disputations to devotions in praise of the Prophet Muhammad and his family.
(Hardback)
By: Paul E. Walker
ISBN: 9781845119911
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Fatimid empire flourished from the beginning of the 10th to the end of the 12th century. The sacred dimension of their rulers was manifested when the imam-Caliphs personally delivered sermons, or khutbas, to their subjects. This book offers a history of the festival sermons and explores their key themes and rhetorical strategies.
(Hardback)
By: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
ISBN: 9781860644368
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Nasir al-din Tusi, the Shi'i scholar of the 13th century, produced a range of writings in different fields of learning under Ismaili patronage and later under the Mongols. This is a new edition and English translation of his Rawda-yi-taslim - the single most important Ismaili text from the Alamut period.
(Hardback)
By: S. J. Badakhchani
ISBN: 9781848855946
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this volume, author offers new critical editions and translations of three shorter Ismaili works by the Persian polymath Nasir al-Din Tusi, namely Aghaz wa anjam (The Beginning and the End), Tawalla wa tabarra (Solidarity and Dissociation), and Matlub al-mu'minin (Desideratum of the Faithful).
(Hardback)
By: Christian Jambet
ISBN: 9781784532994
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A newly edited and translated version of the Haft bab, which outlines the basic tenets of Fatimid Ismaili philosophical theology
(Hardback)
By: Rahim Gholami
ISBN: 9780755653928
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Agostino Cilardo
ISBN: 9781780761299
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Paul E. Walker
ISBN: 9781860646904
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This is the seventh volume of the "Uyun al-akhbar", the most complete extant text by an Ismaili author on the history of the Ismaili community from its origins up to Idris 'Imad al-Din's own time in the 15th century. This volume includes a summary English translation.
(Hardback)
By: Dr. Daryoush Mohammad Poor
ISBN: 9781788315050
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A new Persian edition and the first English translation of the memoirs of Muhammad Hasan 'Ali Shah (1804-1881) the first Ismaili Imam to bear the title of Aga Khan.
(Hardback)
By: Shainool Jiwa
ISBN: 9781780765280
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The reign of the founder of Cairo, the Fatimid imam-caliph al-Muizz li-din allah, marks a watershed in the transformation of the Fatimid state from a regional north african dynasty to an expansive Mediterranean empire and the dissemination of the Fatimid's authority.
(Hardback)
By: Sami Makarem
ISBN: 9781780766799
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Shainool Jiwa
ISBN: 9781845119607
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Imam-caliph al-Mu1izz li-Din Allah (r 953-975), founder of the city of Cairo, transformed the emergent Fatimid state from a regional power of limited influence to an impressive Mediterranean empire whose authority extended from the shores of the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. This title provides a comprehensive account of al-Mu1izz's reign.
(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Rahim Gholami
ISBN: 9780755654765
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2026
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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