Ismailis in the Middle Ages A History of Survival, a Search for Salvation

Name: Ismailis in the Middle Ages A History of Survival, a Search for Salvation
Price: 95.73 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780195311730

ISBN-10: 0195311736

ISBN-13: 9780195311730

Edition: 2007

Authors: Shafique N. Virani

List price: $79.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

1 new & used from $95.73

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

" None of that people should be spared, not even the babe in its cradle." With these chilling words, the Mongol warlord Genghis Khan declared his intention to destroy the Ismailis, one of the most intellectually and politically significant Muslim communities of medieval Islamdom. The massacres that followed convinced observers that this powerful voice of Shi'i Islam had been forever silenced. Little was heard of these people for centuries, until their recent and dramatic emergence from obscurity. Today they exist as a dynamic and thriving community established in over twenty-five countries. Yet the interval between what appeared to have been their total annihilation, and their modern,…

Book details

List price: $79.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/19/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 322
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



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



Gnosis and Imamate


Afterword


Glossary


Bibliography


Notes