Fortresses of the Intellect: Ismaili and Other Islamic Studies in Honour of Farhad Daftary

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Dedicated to the achievements of Farhad Daftary, the foremost authority in Ismaili Studies of our time, this volume gathers together a number of studies on intellectual and political history, particularly in the three main areas where the significance of Daftary's scholarship has had the largest impact-Ismaili Studies as well as Persian Studies and Shi'i Studies in a wider context. It focuses, but not exclusively, on the intellectual production of the Ismailis and their role in history, with discussions ranging from some of the earliest Ismaili texts, to thinkers from the Fatimid and the Alamut periods as well as relations of the Fatimids with other dynasties. Containing essays from some of the most respected scholars in Ismaili, Shi'i and Persian Studies (including Patricia Crone, M A Amir-Moezzi, C Edmund Bosworth and Robert Gleave), the book makes a significant contribution to wider scholarship in philosophical theology and medieval Islam. Front Cover Title page Copyright page Table of Contents Foreword List of Illustrations List of Contributors 1. Introduction: A Biographical Sketch 2. Bibliography of the Works of Farhad Daftary 3. Persian, the Other Sacred Language of Islam: Some Brief Notes 4. Sunni Claims to Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq 5. The Kitāb al-Rusūm wa’l-izdiwāj wa’l-tartīb Attributed to ʿAbdān (d. 286/899): Edition of the Arabic Text and Translation 6. Abū Tammām on the Mubayyiḍa 7. The Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ: Between al-Kindī and al-Fārābī 8. Ibdāʿ, Divine Imperative and Prophecy in the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ 9. Some Aspects of the External Relations of the Qarāmiṭa in Baḥrayn 10. A Distinguished Slav Eunuch of the Early Fatimid Period: al-Ustādh Jawdhar 11. Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān and his Refutation of Ibn Qutayba 12. The Risāla al-Mudhhiba Attributed to al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān: Important Evidence for the Adoption of Neoplatonism by Fatimid Ismailism at the Time of al-Muʿizz? 13. Cosmos into Verse: Two Examples of Islamic Philosophical Poetry in Persian 14. Early Evidence for the Reception of Nāṣir-i Khusraw’s Poetry in Sufism: ʿAyn al-Quḍāt’s Letter on the Taʿlīmīs 15. A Dream Come True: Empowerment Through Dreams Reflecting Fatimid–Sulayhid Relations1 16. From the ‘Moses of Reason’ to the ‘Khiḍr of the Resurrection’: The Oxymoronic Transcendent in Shahrastānī’s Majlis-i maktūb … dar Khwārazm 17. Poems of the Resurrection: Ḥasan-i Maḥmūd-i Kātib and his Dīwān-i Qāʾimiyyāt 18. Further Notes on the Turkish Names in Abu’l-Faḍl Bayhaqī’s Tārīkh-i Masʿūdī 19. A Book List from a Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Manuscript Found in Bāmyān1 20. What’s in a Name? Tughtegin – ‘the Minister of the Antichrist’? 21. Safavids and ‘Subalterns’: The Reclaiming of Voices 22. Compromise and Conciliation in the Akhbārī–Uṣūlī Dispute: Yūsuf al-Baḥrānī’s Assessment of ʿAbd Allāh al-Samāhījī’s Munyat al-Mumārisīn Bibliography Index