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| Prefatory Note | |
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| Introduction: The Isma'ili Heritage | |
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| Building an Islamic world | |
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| The Caliphate as framework for elaborating earlier traditions on a fresh basis | |
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| Incipient Islam: Mohammed's demand for civil and religious purity | |
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| Islamization of the Middle East | |
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| The Sunni synthesis | |
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| Isma'ilism as Offering an Alternative Synthesis | |
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| The Shi'a form of Islam | |
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| Isma'ilism as a Shi'a sect | |
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| The Isma'iliyya as a conspiratorial revolt | |
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| The Fatimid Empire: Philosophy of Cosmos and of Man | |
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| Rationalism and the batin | |
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| Occultism: the cosmic process of emanation | |
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| The cosmic return | |
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| Position of the imam: typological conception of history | |
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| The crisis of Isma'ilism and the Nizari response | |
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| The Traditional Interpretation of Isma'ilism | |
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| The revaluation of Fatimid Isma'ilism | |
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| The enemies of the Nizaris | |
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| Von Hammer and the Western legend of the Assassins | |
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| Vindication of the Nizaris | |
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| Problems of dealing with Saljuq and Ayyubid times | |
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| Nizari texts | |
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| Ivanow and the modern revaluation of the Nizaris | |
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| The place of a general history of the Nizaris | |
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| The Onslaught Against the Saljuqs | |
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| Hasan-I Sabbah and the Isma'ili Crisis | |
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| The Confrontation of Fatimid Isma'ilism with Saljuq Sunnism | |
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| The breakdown of the Fatimid power | |
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| Sunni culture in the Saljuq age | |
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| Social atomization and religious integration | |
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| Tableau of Nizari Times | |
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| Hasan-i Sabbah's Labors | |
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| The youthful seeking | |
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| The visit to Egypt (1078) | |
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| Hasan serves in the Isma'ili da'wa (1081-1090) | |
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| The taking of Alamut (1090) | |
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| Hasan-i Sabbah's figure at Alamut (1090-1124) | |
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| Hasan-i Sabbah and the Isma'ili Ta'lim | |
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| The leadership of Ibn 'Attash | |
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| The Shi'ite doctrine of ta'lim | |
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| Hasan's critique of the doctrine of ta'lim | |
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| The role of reason in reaching universal validity | |
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| The dehistoricized, absolute imamate | |
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| Authoritarian community policy | |
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| The Nizari Revolt | |
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| The Nizari Schism from the Fatimid Government (1094) | |
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| The succession dispute between Nizar and Musta'li | |
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| Motivation for the schism | |
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| Justification for the schism: the problem of a figurehead | |
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| The organization of an independent Nizari da'wa | |
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| The succes of the Nizari da'wa | |
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| The Revolt Under Way | |
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| The first uprisings: Rudbar and Quhistan (1090-1092) | |
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| The Isma'ili uprising finds its pattern (1092-1099) | |
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| Ambiguities of civil war | |
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| War With the Saljuqs: Decisive Phase | |
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| Methods of Struggle | |
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| The dar al-hijra ideal and the seizing of fortresses | |
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| Isma'ili revolt in a Sunni setting | |
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| The method of assassination | |
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| Assassination as a weapon of desperation | |
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| Rising Fortunes (1100-1105) | |
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| The disruption of the Saljuq power | |
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| Isma'ilis intervene at the heart of the Saljuq power | |
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| Unorganized anti-Isma'ili violence | |
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| Saljuqs attempt repression | |
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| Isma'ilis in Syria: their patron Ridwan | |
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| Falling Fortunes (1105-1118) | |
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| Reversal of the Isma'ili fortunes in Syria (1106-1113) | |
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| Disorganization of the Syrian da'wa (1113) | |
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| Muhammad Tapar and the Saljuq counteroffensive (1105-1107) | |
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| The limits of Saljuq reconquest (1107-1118) | |
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| The Nizari State | |
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| Buzurg'ummid and Territorial Settlement (1118-1138) | |
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| The Isma'ilis among the amirs (1118-1126) | |
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| Defeat of the renewed Saljuq offensive (1126-1131) | |
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| Magnificent gestures from Alamut (1131-1138) | |
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| Definition of the Isma'ili Position in the West | |
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| Career of Bahram in Damascus: the Syrian da'wa revived (1125-1128) | |
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| Defeat and withdrawal to the mountains in Syria (1129-1140) | |
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| The end of the contest with Fatimid Isma'ilism | |
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| The Hafizi-Tayyibi schism in the Fatimid da'wa (1130) | |
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| Isma'ili Policies: Assassination | |
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| Patterns of assassination and massacre | |
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| Assassination at the request of non-Isma'ilis | |
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| Assassinations and the local struggles for power | |
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| Social and Political Structure | |
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| Nizari solidarity and vigor | |
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| Raiders' life in Alamut | |
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| Alamut as the center of the Nizari power | |
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| Stability of the Nizari dynasty | |
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| Reaction of the Islamic World | |
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| Social and Legal Reaction: Proscription | |
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| The popular terror and scorn | |
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| The legal problems of conformity by lip-service | |
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| The Intellectual Response: Ghazzali and the Challenge of Ta'lim to Reason | |
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| Ghazzali's defense of a Sunni alternative to ta'lim | |
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| Problem of authority solved in terms of history | |
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| Ghazzali's "Balance" as answer to Hasan-i Sabbah's four propositions | |
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| Variations upon Ghazzali's response later | |
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| Imaginative Fruit | |
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| The legend of the garden | |
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| The word "Assassin" | |
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| Legend of the three schoolfellows | |
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| Horrified awe | |
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| The Gospel of the Qiyama | |
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| Stalemate and a New Start: Hasan 'Ala Dhikri-hi s-Salam | |
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| Muhammad ibn Buzurg'ummid: Mountain Lord (1138-1162) | |
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| Persistent expectancy despite a local outlook | |
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| Revolt in stalemate: campaigns degenerate to quarrels | |
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| Nizari rigorism and the young heir | |
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| The Proclamation of the Qiyama: Hasan II as Da'i and Imam | |
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| Festival of the Qiyama: the resurrection from the dead (1164) | |
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| Return of the imam: Hasan's claims | |
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| The resurrection: Hasan as Qa'im | |
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| Qiyama as ending taqiyya, fulfilling Isma'ilism | |
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| The resistance to the Qiyama: Hasan is murdered | |
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| The Preaching of the Qiyama | |
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| Muhammad II: Devotion Oriented Toward the Imam (1166-1210) | |
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| Muhammad's interpretation of his father's claims | |
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| The imam as revelation of God | |
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| The beatific vision | |
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| True viewpoint as salvation | |
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| The Universe of the Qiyama | |
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| Indentification of Qiyama and haqiqa | |
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| Existence as personal: tashakhkhus | |
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| The deathless sage: Melchizedec as imam and qa'im | |
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| The individual in the Qiyama: three levels of being | |
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| Resolution of the emanational system | |
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| The Qiyama as Declaration of Spiritual Maturity | |
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| The Christian analogy to the Qiyama | |
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| Nizari ambivalence toward Sunnism | |
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| The Qiyama in the World: its Lackluster (1166-1192) | |
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| Sunnism and the mystics: stolen thunder | |
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| Sunni powers after Sanjar: dissension and the Syrian ghazis | |
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| Muhammad's defensive peace in the Iranian territories | |
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| Qiyama Times in Syria: Rashid ad-Din Sinan | |
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| Sinan in Syria: Consolidation Within and Without (1140-1192) | |
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| Military problems | |
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| Sinan and his friend Saladin | |
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| The internal administration | |
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| Abu Firas' Portrait of Sinan: the Hero | |
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| Sinan as a one-man show | |
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| The types of Sinan's wonders | |
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| Sinan and Alamut: The Syrian Response to the Qiyama | |
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| Sinan as independent not in name but in effect | |
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| The Fragment Nr. One: appearances of the Lord to men | |
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| Sinan's version of the Qiyama | |
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| Flavor of the Syrian haqiqa: unregimented hopefulness | |
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| Popular Shi'ism | |
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| Sinan's legacy in Syria (1192-1210) | |
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| Rapprochement With Sunnism: the Satr | |
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| Romance and Reality Among the Sunni Powers | |
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| Clouds over Muhammad II's reign (1192-1210) | |
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| Khwarazmshah and the Middle Eastern universal monarchy | |
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| The Caliph Nasir and the civil empire | |
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| Breach between Muhammad II and his heir | |
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| Hasan III's Islamization (1210-1221) | |
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| Restoration of the shari'a | |
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| Hasan's authority at home | |
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| Military adventure abroad | |
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| Probability of Hasan's sincerity | |
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| The Aftermath of Hasan's Conversion: the Doctrine of the Satr | |
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| The relaxation of Hasan's policy: transition into the reign of Muhammad III | |
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| Adjustment of the Qiyama to history: a new mood shifts the meaning of old terms | |
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| Satr and Qiyama as alternating periods | |
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| Restriction of the privilege of wahda to the men of ta'yid | |
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| Restrictions on the manifestation of the imam: hujja as sole channel of access | |
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| The outcome of Hasan's demarche | |
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| The Last Generation of Freedom | |
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| Learning and Life Under the Satr (1221-1256) | |
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| The respect for learning: Nasir ad-Din Tusi | |
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| Tusi's Isma'ili work | |
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| The Quhistani sense of dignity | |
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| The Syrian lieutenants: high expectations | |
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| Surviving Syrian literature: the fragments | |
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| Hopes of Expansion | |
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| Fighting with the Khwarazm power (1221-1231) | |
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| Tortuous negotiations | |
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| World-wide outlook | |
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| The Death of Muhammad III | |
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| Muhammad's character: the dynasty in degeneracy | |
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| War with the Mongols | |
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| Crisis and murder | |
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| The Failure of the Nizari Venture | |
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| Retrospect | |
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| The End of the Nizari Power | |
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| Khwurshah's surrender (1256) | |
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| Khwurshah among the Mongols | |
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| The revenge of Islam | |
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| Afterglow | |
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| The Mamluk triumph in Syria | |
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| Under Egyptian rule | |
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| The Iranian Isma'ilis attempt a comeback | |
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| The Nizari heritage | |
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| Appendices | |
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| The Popular Appeal of the Qiyama: Commentary and Translation of the Haft Bab-i Baba Sayyid-na | |
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| Hasan-i Sabbah's doctrine: translation from Shahrastani | |
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| Bibliographical Notes | |
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| Index | |