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Subject(s)

• Ismailites—Manuscripts [Browse]
• Ismailites—Doctrines—History [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—Asia [Browse]
• Transmission of texts—Asia [Browse]

Editor

• Momin, Wafi A. [Browse]

Related name

• Institute of Ismaili Studies [Browse]

Notes

"In association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies."

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: SECTION I THE SHAPING OF A NEW FIELD
• 1. Ismaili Manuscripts and Modern Scholarship in Ismaili Studies / Farhad Daftary
• 2. Husain Hamdani, Paul Kraus, and a Suitcase Full of Manuscripts / Francois de Blois
• SECTION II RASA'IL IKHWAN AL-SAFA', KITAB AL-ZINA, AND THEIR MANUSCRIPT TRADITION
• 3. The Ikhwan al-Safa's Epistles on Logic in Some Manuscripts of the IIS Arabic Collection / Carmela Baffioni
• 4. The Missing Link? MS 1040: An Important Copy of the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa' in the Collection of The Institute of Ismaili Studies / Omar Ali-de-Unzaga
• 5. The Manuscript Copies of Abu Hatim al-Razi's Kitab al-Zina at The Institute of Ismaili Studies / Cornelius Berthold
• SECTION III EXPLORING TWO EARLY JAYYIBI WORKS AND THEIR TRANSMISSION
• 6. The Majmu al-tarbiya between Text and Paratext: Exploring the Social History of a Community's Reading Culture / Delia Cortese
• 7. Textual, Orthographic Variations and Scribes' Annotations: A Possible Tool for the Transmission Analysis of the Text? / Monica Scotti
• SECTION IV REVISITING NIZARI HISTORY OF ALAMUT TIMES
• 8. Alamut and Badakhshan: Newly Identified Sargudhasht-i Sayyidna Manuscripts and their Background / Miklds Sdrkozy
• 9. `Ahd-i Sayyidna, a Newly Discovered Treatise on the Consolidation of the Nizari Da'wa in Alamut / Karim Javan
• 10. The Discovery, Description and Publication of the Manuscripts of Two Major Nizari Ismaili Texts from the Alamut Period: The Haft Bab and the Diwan-i Qa'imiyyat of Hasan-i Mahmud-i Katib / S. J. Badakhchani
• SECTION V COMMUNAL SCRIPT, SCRIBAL ELITE, AND SATPANTH MANUSCRIPT CULTURE
• 11. Khwajah Sindhi (Khojki): Its Name, Manuscripts and Origin / Shafique N. Virani
• 12. A Forgotten Voice: The Agency of the Scribal and Literate Elite and the Satpanth Manuscript Culture / Wafi A. Momin
• SECTION VI IDENTITY, CULTURAL INTERACTIONS, AND ESOTERIC INTERPRETATION AMONG CENTRAL ASIAN ISMAILI COMMUNITIES
• 13. Ismaili-Sufi Relationships in the Light of the Ni'mat Allahi Manuscripts in the Holdings of The Institute of Ismaili Studies / Orkhan Mir-Kasimov
• 14. Poems of Allegiance: Shah Diyal-i Shughnani's Salam-nama / Nourmamadcho Nourmamadchoev
• 15. The Sahifat al-ndzirin: Reflections on Authorship and Confessional Identity in a 15th-Century Central Asian Text / Daniel Beben
• 16. The Seven Pillars of the Shari'a and the Question of Authority in Central Asian Ismaili Manuscripts: An Ismaili Esoteric Discourse / Yahia Baiza
• SECTION VII APPROACHING TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION THROUGH QUR'ANIC MANUSCRIPTS AND HOLOGRAPH/AUTOGRAPH COPIES
• 17. Writing the Qur'an between the Lines: Preliminary Remarks on Marginalia in the Qur'an Manuscripts held by The Institute of Ismaili Studies / Asma Hilali
• 18. The Making of Holographs/Autographs: Case Studies from the Special Collections of The Institute of Ismaili Studies / Walid Ghali.

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ISBN

• 0755645383 ((paperback))
• 9780755645381 ((paperback))
• 0755645375 ((hardcover))
• 9780755645374 ((hardcover))

LCCN

2022399758

OCLC

1305912647

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