Ismaili Literature: A Bibliography of Sources and Studies

by Farhad Daftary

Overview

Ismaili Studies represents one of the most recent fields of Islamic Studies. Much new research has taken place in this field as a result of the recovery of a large number of Ismaili texts. Ismaili Literature contains a complete listing of the sources and secondary studies, including theses, written by Ismailis or about them in all major Islamic and European languages. It also contains chapters surveying Ismaili history and developments in modern Ismaili Studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857739940
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	03/23/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	488
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Farhad Daftary is Head of the Department of Academic Research and Publications at The Institute of Ismaili Studies. A scholar of Ismaili Studies, he is the author of several acclaimed books and numerous shorter studies in this field of Islamic studies. His publications include The Ismailis: their History and Doctrines (1990), The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Ismailis (1994), and A Short History of the Ismailis (1998).
Farhad Daftary is Governor and Director Emeritus of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK. He has written more than 200 articles and encyclopedia entries and several acclaimed books, including The Ismailis: Their History and Doctrines (1990; 2nd ed., 2007), The Assassin Legends (1994), and A Short History of the Ismailis (1998). Daftary is a consulting editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica (for Ismailism), co-editor of the Encyclopaedia Islamica, and general editor of the Ismaili Heritage Series, the Ismaili Texts and Translations Series and the Shi'i Heritage Series published by I.B. Tauris.

Table of Contents

Preface
• Abbreviations
• Ismaili History and its Literary Sources
• Ismaili Studies: Medieval Antecedents and Modern Developments
• Primary Sources
• Works by Ismaili Authors
• Anonymous Ismaili and Pseudo-Ismaili Works
• Rasåil Ikhwån al-Íafå, by an Anonymous Group of Authors
• Selected Works by Non-Ismaili Muslim Authors
• Studies
• Selected Theses
• Genealogical Tables and Lists

Editorial Reviews

"a fine work and should find a ready home in the reference section of any Middle East or Islamic studies collection." —Mela Notes

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