The master and the disciple
Subtitle: an early Islamic spiritual dialogue : Arabic edition and English translation of Jaʻfar b. Manṣūr al-Yaman's Kitāb al-ʻĀlim wa'l-ghulām
By: by James W. Morris.
Contributors: Morris, James Winston, 1949-.; Institute of Ismaili Studies.
Series: Ismaili texts and translations series -- 3; Ismaili texts and translations series (Institute of Ismaili Studies) -- 3.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; In association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies; Distributed in the United States of America and in Canada by St. Martin's Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; New York; London; New York
Language: eng; ara
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Shiites; Conversion -- Islam
Work titles: Ālim wa-al-ghulām.
Description: This key source for pre-Fatimid Ismaili history includes a fully annotated translation and Arabic critical edition of one of the earliest surviving Ismaili Shi'i writings, Kitåb al-'Ålim wa'l-ghulåm by the Yemeni author Ja'far Ibn Manßúr al-Yaman. The book is unique because it provides the most elaborate example available of the narrated dramatic dialogues form in Arabic literature. It also vividly illustrates the processes by which early esoteric Shi'i ideas and institutions eventually contributed to the evolution of more familiar forms of Sufism in the Islamic West.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-216) and index.