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Subject(s)

• Jaʻfar ibn Manṣūr al-Yaman active 10th century—Kashf [Browse]
• Qurʼan—Hermeneutics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Publisher

• Institute of Ismaili Studies [Browse]

Series

• Shi'i heritage series ; 11. [More in this series]
• Shi'i heritage series ; 11 [More in this series]

Contains

Jaʻfar ibn Manṣūr al-Yaman, active 10th century. Kashf. English. [Browse]

Restrictions note

Open access.

Summary note

The Kitab al-Kashf is one of the earliest Ismaili texts to have reached the present day. Transmitted by the Tayybi Ismaili tradition, it is composed of six treatises, most of which, as this open access study and first English translation argues, go back to the early years of the Fatimid rule. The importance of this work is predicated upon the unique insight it offers on the early stages of the elaboration of Ismaili doctrine. A number of parallels with Twelver Shi'i, as well as ghulat and Nusayri sources, are highlighted throughout this study, which, by contrast, allow for the identification of specifically Ismaili themes and doctrines, before and after the rise to power of the Fatimids.

Notes

Includes translation from the Arabic.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-495) and indexes.

ISBN

• 9780755653867
• 9780755653874 (pbk)
• 0755653874 (pbk)
• 0755653866 (hardback)

OCLC

1427517896

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