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In Jonah Blank's important, myth-shattering book, the West gets its first look at the Daudi Bohras, a unique Muslim denomination who have found the core of their religious beliefs largely compatible with modern ideology. Combining orthodox Muslim prayer, dress, and practice with secular education, relative gender equality, and Internet use, this community serves as a surprising reminder that the central values of "modernity" are hardly limited to...
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The Isma'ili Muslims, a major sect of Shi'i Islam, form a community that is intriguing in its deterritorialized social organization. Informed by the richness of Isma'ili history, theories of transnationalism and globalization, and firsthand ethnographic fieldwork in the Himalayan regions of Tajikistan and Pakistan as well as in Europe, Jonah Steinberg investigates Isma'ili Muslims and the development of their remarkable and expansive twenty-first-century...
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Cambridge University Press
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English
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The Isma'ilis represent the second largest Shii Muslim community after the Twelvers, and are today scattered throughout more than twenty-five countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and North America. The second edition of this authoritative book traces the history and doctrinal development of the Isma'ilis from their origins in the formative period of Islam to the present day, a period of more than twelve centuries. All the major phases...
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Islamic Research Association volume no. 13
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1952
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Arabic
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Ismaili Society. Series B volume no. 7
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Published for the Islami Society by successors of E.J. Brill
Pub. Date
1952
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English
15) Kashf al-maḥjûb: (Le dévoilement des choses cachées); traité ismaélien du IVme siècle de l'hégire
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Bibliothèque iranienne Sér. A textes volume 1
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Institut franco-iranien
Pub. Date
1949
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Persian
17) Zād al-musāfirīn
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Publications / Kaviani Press volume 11
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Kāviyānī
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[1341 i.e. 1922]
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Persian
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Tauris
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1995
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English
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For hundreds of years Westerners have been fascinated by stories of the Assassins, their mysterious leader and their remote mountain stronghold at Alamut in Northern Iran. The legends first emerged in the 12th and 13th centuries, when Crusaders in Syria came into contact with the Nazari Isma'ilis, one of the communities of Shi'ite Islam who, at the behest of their leader Hassan Sabaa (mythologized as the "Old Man of the Mountain"), engaged in dangerous...