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  • The Fatimid Caliphate

    Diversity of Traditions

    Edited by Dr Farhad Daftary, Shainool Jiwa ...
    Series series Ismaili Heritage
    I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili StudiesThe Fatimids ruled much of the Mediterranean world for over two centuries. From the conquest of Qayrawan in 909 to defeat at the hands of Saladin in 1171, the Fatimid caliphate governed a vast area stretching, at its peak, from the Red Sea in the East to the Atlantic Ocean in the West. Their leaders - the Ismaili Shi`i Imam-caliphs - ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Ismailis

    by Dr Farhad Daftary ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures
    The Ismailis represent an important Shi'i Muslim community, who are now scattered in more than 30 countries of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and North America. The Ismailis have had a long and eventful history dating back to the formative period of Islam. This dictionary, the first work of reference of its kind, presents the findings of modern scholarship on the Ismailis and different ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Ismaili History and Intellectual Traditions

    by Farhad Daftary ...
    The Ismailis represent an important Shiʿi Muslim community with rich intellectual and literary traditions. The complex history of the Ismailis dates back to the second/eighth century when they separated from other Shiʿi groups under the leadership of their own imams. Soon afterwards, the Ismailis organised a dynamic, revolutionary movement, known as the daʿwa or mission, for uprooting the Sunni ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Shi'i World

    Pathways in Tradition and Modernity

    Edited by Amyn Sajoo, Shainool Jiwa, Dr Farhad Daftary ...
    Series series Muslim Heritage
    I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili StudiesThe world's 200 million Shi'i Muslims express their faith in a multiplicity of ways, united by reverence for the ahl al-bayt, the family of the Prophet. In embracing a pluralistic ethic, fourteen centuries of Shi'i Islam have given rise to diverse traditions and practices across varied geographic and cultural landscapes. The Shi'i ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Ismailis

    by Farhad Daftary ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures
    The Ismaili Muslims, who belong to the Shia branch of Islam, live in over 25 different countries around the world, mainly in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Their history has typically been linked to the history of the various countries in which they live, but the worldwide community is united under Prince Karim Aga Khan, the spiritual leader and 49th Imam of the Ismaili Muslims. Few fields of ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Fifty Years in the East

    The Memoirs of Wladimir Ivanow

    Edited by Dr Farhad Daftary ...
    I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili StudiesFew fields of Islamic studies have witnessed as much progress in modern times as Ismaili studies, and in even fewer instances has the role of a single individual been as pivotal in initiating progress as that of Wladimir Ivanow (1886-1970), whose memoirs are now published here for the first time. The breakthrough in modern Ismaili ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Ismaili Literature

    A Bibliography of Sources and Studies

    by Dr Farhad Daftary ...
    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 ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Midnight at the Pera Palace

    The Birth of Modern Istanbul

    by Charles King ...
    The inspiration for the Netflix series premiering March 3rd"Hugely enjoyable, magnificently researched, and deeply absorbing." —Jason Goodwin, New York Times Book ReviewAt midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock.Yet in Istanbul—an ancient ... Read more

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  • Operation Nemesis

    The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide

    by Eric Bogosian ...
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  • The Mongols and the Islamic World

    From Conquest to Conversion

    by Peter Jackson ...
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  • Introducing Islam

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