Fortresses of the intellect
Subtitle: Ismaili and other Islamic studies in honour of Farhad Daftary
By: edited by Omar Alí-de-Unzaga
Contributors: Daftary, Farhad; Institute of Ismaili Studies
Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd; in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9781848856264
Subjects: Islamic civilization; Study and teaching; Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 521-571) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a biographical sketch / Omar Alí de Unzaga; title: Bibliography of the works of Farhad Daftary; title: Persian, the other sacred language of Islam : some brief notes / Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi; title: Sunni claims to Imam Jaʻfar al-Ṣādiq / Hamid Algar; title: The Kitāb al-rusūm waʼl-izdiwāj waʼl-tartīb attributed to ʻAbdān (d. 289/899) : edition of the Arabic text and translation / Wilferd Madelung and Paul E. Walker; title: Abū Tammām on the Mubayyiḍa / Patricia Crone; title: The Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ : between al-Kindī and al-Fārābī / Abbas Hamdani; title: Ibdaʻ, divine imperative and prophecy in the Rasāʼil Ikhwān al-Ṣafā / Carmela Baffioni; title: Some aspects of the external relations of the Qarāmiṭa in Baḥrayn / István Hajnal; title: A distinguished Slav eunuch of the early Fatimid period : al Ustādh Jawdhar / Hamid Haji; title: Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʻmān and his refutation of Ibn Qutayba / Ismail K. Poonawala; title: 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; title: Cosmos into verse : two examples of Islamic philosophical poetry in Persian / Alice C. Hunsberger; title: Early evidence for the reception of Nāṣir-i Khusraw's poetry in Sufism : ʻAyn al-Quḍāt's letter on the Raʻlīmīs / Hermann Landolt; title: A dream come true : empowerment through dreams reflecting Fatimid-Sulayhid relations / Delia Cortese; title: From the "Moses of reason" to the "Khiḍr of the Resurrection" : the oxymoronic transcendent in Shahrastānī's Majlis-i maktūb; title: dar Khwārazm / Leonard Lewisohn; title: Poems of the Resurrection : Ḥasan-i Maḥmūd-i Kātib and his Dīwān-i Qāʼimiyyāt / S. Jalal Badakhchani; title: Further notes on the Turkish names in Abuʼl-Faḍl Bayhaqī's Tārīkh-i Masʻūdī / C. Edmund Bosworth; title: A book list from a seventh/thirteenth-century manuscript found in Bāmyān / Iraj Afshar; title: What's in a name? : Tughtegin, "the Minister of the Antichrist"? / Carole Hillenbrand; title: Safavids and "subalterns" : the reclaiming of voices / Andrew J. Newman; title: Compromise and conciliation in the Akhbārī-Uṣūlī dispute : Yūsuf al-Baḥrānī's assessment of ʻAbd Allāh al-Samāhījī's Munyat al-Mumārisīn / Robert Gleave.