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Fortresses of the intellect : Ismaili and other Islamic studies in honour of Farhad Daftary / edited by Omar Alí-de-Unzaga.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islam--Study and teaching.
- Islam.
- Islamic civilization--Study and teaching.
- Islamic civilization.
- Daftary, Farhad.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 600 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : I B Tauris & Co Ltd ; London : in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, [2011]
- Contents:
- Introduction : a biographical sketch / Omar Alí de Unzaga
- Bibliography of the works of Farhad Daftary
- Persian, the other sacred language of Islam : some brief notes / Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
- Sunni claims to Imam Jaʻfar al-Ṣādiq / Hamid Algar
- The Kitāb al-rusūm waʾl-izdiwāj waʾl-tartīb attributed to ʻAbdān (d. 289/899) : edition of the Arabic text and translation / Wilferd Madelung and Paul E. Walker
- Abū Tammām on the Mubayyiḍa / Patricia Crone
- The Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ : between al-Kindī and al-Fārābī / Abbas Hamdani
- Ibdaʻ, divine imperative and prophecy in the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafā / Carmela Baffioni
- Some aspects of the external relations of the Qarāmiṭa in Baḥrayn / István Hajnal
- A distinguished Slav eunuch of the early Fatimid period : al Ustādh Jawdhar / Hamid Haji
- Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʻmān and his refutation of Ibn Qutayba / Ismail K. Poonawala
- The Risāla al-Mudhhiba attributed to al-Qāḍī al-Nuʻmān : important evidence for the adoption of Neoplatonism by Fatimid Ismailism at the time of al-Muʻizz? / Daniel De Smet
- Cosmos into verse : two examples of Islamic philosophical poetry in Persian / Alice C. Hunsberger
- Early evidence for the reception of Nāṣir-i Khusraw's poetry in Sufism : ʻAyn al-Quḍāt's letter on the Raʻlīmīs / Hermann Landolt
- A dream come true : empowerment through dreams reflecting Fatimid-Sulayhid relations / Delia Cortese
- From the "Moses of reason" to the "Khiḍr of the Resurrection" : the oxymoronic transcendent in Shahrastānī's Majlis-i maktūb
- dar Khwārazm / Leonard Lewisohn
- Poems of the Resurrection : Ḥasan-i Maḥmūd-i Kātib and his Dīwān-i Qāʾimiyyāt / S. Jalal Badakhchani
- Further notes on the Turkish names in Abuʾl-Faḍl Bayhaqī's Tārīkh-i Masʻūdī / C. Edmund Bosworth
- A book list from a seventh/thirteenth-century manuscript found in Bāmyān / Iraj Afshar
- What's in a name? : Tughtegin, "the Minister of the Antichrist"? / Carole Hillenbrand
- Safavids and "subalterns" : the reclaiming of voices / Andrew J. Newman
- Compromise and conciliation in the Akhbārī-Uṣūlī dispute : Yūsuf al-Baḥrānī's assessment of ʻAbd Allāh al-Samāhījī's Munyat al-Mumārisīn / Robert Gleave.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-571) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781848856264
- 1848856261
- OCLC:
- 610852918
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