The Isma'ilis
Subtitle: Their History and Doctrines
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 27, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 822
ISBN-13: 9780521370196
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; Islam; History; History: World; Middle East; Islam - Shi'a; World - General; History / Middle East; Ismailites
First sentence: It was not until the latter part of the nineteenth century that Islamic studies was established as a separate field within general orientalism in the West.