The sound traditions : : studies in Ismaili texts and thought /

The sound traditions : : studies in Ismaili texts and thought / / by Ismail K. Poonawala ; edited by Kumail Rajani.

"The Sound Traditions: Studies in Ismaili Texts and Thought is a collection of Ismail K. Poonawala's articles on Ismaili studies. Divided into three sections, the volume consists of nineteen articles that have been published over a long period of more than forty years. Part One focuses on...

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Poonawala, Ismail K.,
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Rajani, Kumail,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (712 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Part 1 Ismaʿili Sources and Authorship
  • Chapter 1 Ismaʿili Sources for the History of South-West Arabia
  • Chapter 2 Ismaʿili Manuscripts from Yemen
  • Chapter 3 Anonymous Works and Their Ascription to Famous Authors: Are They Cases of Mistaken Identity or an Outright Forgery?
  • Chapter 4 The Contribution of Ismaʿili Colophons to the Discussion on the Birth and Construction of the Arabic Manuscript Tradition
  • Chapter 5 Discovery of the Kitāb al-asrār Ascribed to the First Fatimid Caliph-Imam al-Mahdī: Its Ramifications
  • Part 2 Ismaʿili Rational Discourses (al-maʿqūlāt)
  • Chapter 6 Why We Need an Arabic Critical Edition with an Annotated English Translation of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ
  • Chapter 7 Wealth and Poverty in the Qurʾan and Traditions of the Prophet, and How Those Concepts are Reflected in the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ
  • Chapter 8 Humanism in Ismaʿili Thought: The Case of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (The Epistles of the Sincere Brethren and Faithful Friends)
  • Chapter 9 An Early Doctrinal Controversy in the Iranian School of Ismaʿili Thought and Its Implications
  • Chapter 10 An Ismaʿili Treatise of the Iʿjāz al-Qurʾān
  • Chapter 11 Al-Sijistānī and His Kitāb al-Maqālīd al-Malakūtiyya
  • Part 3 Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān and Ismaʿili Transmitted Knowledge (al-manqūlāt)
  • Chapter 12 Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān's Works and the Sources
  • Chapter 13 A Reconsideration of al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān's Madhhab
  • Chapter 14 The Chronology of al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān's Works
  • Chapter 15 Sources for al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān's Works and Their Authenticity
  • Chapter 16 The Beginning of the Ismaʿili Daʿwa and the Establishment of the Fatimid Dynasty as Commemorated by al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān
  • Chapter 17 Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān and Ismaʿili Jurisprudence.
  • Chapter 18 The Evolution of al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān's Theory of Ismaʿili Jurisprudence as Reflected in the Chronology of His Works on Jurisprudence
  • Chapter 19 Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān and His Refutation of Ibn Qutayba
  • Copyright Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Qurʾanic References
  • General Index.

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