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The Ismailis in the Middle Ages : a history of survival, a search for salvation / Shafique N. Virani.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Virani, Shafique N.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ismailites--History.
- Ismailites.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (322 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the 13th century, an edict of the Mongol warlord Genghis Khan ordained that the Ismaili Muslims, who had hitherto resisted all attempts at subjugation, be utterly destroyed. This text examines the most obscure portion of this period, from the mid 13th century to the end of the 15th century.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Recovering a lost history
- The eagle returns
- Veiling the sun
- Summoning to the truth
- Possessors of the command
- Qibla of the world
- The way of the seeker
- Salvation and imamate
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-289) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029520-1
- 0-19-804259-0
- 1-281-16373-2
- 9786611163730
- 1-4356-1991-9
- OCLC:
- 143377607
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb09281 hdl
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