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| Illustrations and maps | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface to the first edition | |
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| Preface to the second edition | |
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| Note on the text and abbreviations | |
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| Introduction: progress in the study of the Isma'ilis | |
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| Phases in Isma'ili history | |
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| Isma'ili historiography | |
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| Anti-Isma'ili writings of other Muslims | |
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| Medieval European perceptions of the Isma'ilis | |
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| Orientalist perspectives | |
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| Modern progress in Isma'ili studies | |
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| Origins and early development of Shi'ism | |
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| Origins of Shi'ism | |
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| Early history of Shi'ism | |
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| al-Mukhtar and the mawali | |
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| The Kaysaniyya, the ghulat and the early Imamiyya | |
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| Ja'far al-Sadiq's imamate and the 'Abbasids | |
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| Imam al-Sadiq's teachings | |
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| Early Isma'ilism | |
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| The earliest Isma'ilis | |
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| The da'wa of the 3rd/9th century | |
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| The Isma'ili-Qarmati schism of 286/899 | |
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| Establishment of Fatimid rule | |
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| Aspects of early Isma'ili teachings | |
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| The Fatimid period until 487/1094: dawla and da'wa | |
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| Consolidation of the Fatimid caliphate in North Africa | |
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| Digression on Qarmati communities | |
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| al-Mu'izz and the conquest of Egypt | |
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| The religious policy of al-Mu'izz | |
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| al-Qadi al-Nu'man and Isma'ili jurisprudence | |
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| al-'Aziz and the Fatimid campaigns in Syria | |
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| al-Hakim, the Isma'ili da'wa and the Druze movement | |
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| al-Zahir and Sitt al-Mulk | |
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| al-Mustansir's long reign | |
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| Organization of the Fatimid dawla and the Isma'ili da'wa | |
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| Philosophical Isma'ilism of the Iranian da'is | |
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| The Ikhwan al-Safa' and their Epistles | |
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| The later Fatimids and Musta'lian Isma'ilism | |
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| The Nizari-Musta'li schism of 487/1094 | |
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| al-Musta'li and al-Amir | |
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| al-Hafiz and the Hafizi-Tayyibi schism | |
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| The later Fatimids and early Hafizi Isma'ilism | |
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| The Hafizi Musta'lian da'wa in Yaman | |
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| The early Tayyibi Musta'lian da'wa in Yaman | |
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| Aspects of Tayyibi thought | |
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| The early Tayyibi da'wa in India | |
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| The Da'udi Sulaymani-'Alawi schism in Tayyibi Isma'ilism | |
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| The Da'udi Bohra da'wa and community | |
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| The Sulaymani da'wa and community | |
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| Nizari Isma'ili history during the Alamut period | |
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| Nizari Isma'ili historiography | |
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| Hasan-i Sabbah and the struggle of the Persian Isma'ilis | |
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| Commencement of Nizari activities in Syria | |
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| Consolidation of the Nizari state and the doctrine of ta'lim | |
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| Buzurg-Ummid and the Nizari-Saljuq stalemate | |
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| Muhammad b. Buzurg-Ummid | |
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| The proclamation of qiyama or resurrection | |
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| Sinan and the Syrian Nizaris | |
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| Rapprochement with Sunni Islam | |
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| 'Ala' al-Din Muhammad III and Nizari thought of the period | |
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| Final decades of the Nizari state | |
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| The post-Alamut centuries and modern developments in Nizari Isma'ili history | |
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| Patterns and research problems in post-Alamut Nizari history | |
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| Early post-Alamut centuries and Nizari relations with Sufism | |
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| The Anjudan revival in Nizari Isma'ilism | |
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| The Nizari Khojas and Satpanth Isma'ilism | |
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| The Muhammad-Shahi imams and the Nizaris of Central Asia | |
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| The later Qasim-Shahi Nizari imams | |
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| The Aga Khans and the modern period in Nizari history | |
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| Genealogical tables and lists | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Select bibliography | |
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| Index | |