Note on the Text
The studies collected in this volume had appeared in the form of independent chapters in a variety of edited volumes during 2005–2024. I have, therefore, taken the opportunity of reprinting them here to delete certain introductory materials that might appear repetitive, and also introducing certain revisions and additions where necessary. However, such revisions, interventions and updating of the notes have been kept to a minimum. The collection of these studies in one volume also necessitated the standardisation of the systems of transliteration and referencing; diacritics have been added throughout the text and the footnotes of the volume. Also, terms such as imam, which have become part of the English lexicon, have not been transliterated.
In reprinting the studies of this volume, the permission of the following publishers is gratefully acknowledged:
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, for ‘Varieties of Islam’, in The New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 4, Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century, ed. Robert Irwin (2010), pp. 105–141.
I.B. Tauris, London, for ‘Ismaili Manuscripts and Modern Scholarship in Ismaili Studies’, in W.A. Momin, ed., Texts, Scribes and Transmission: Manuscript Cultures of the Ismaili Communities and Beyond (2022), pp. 23–46.
I.B. Tauris, London, for ‘Ismaili Literature in Persian in Central and South Asia’, in A History of Persian Literature: Volume IX, Persian Literature from Outside Iran. The Indian Subcontinent, Anatolia, Central Asia, and in Judeo-Persian, ed. John R. Perry (2018), pp. 173–188.
I.B. Tauris, London, for ‘Sunni Perceptions of the Ismailis: Medieval Perspectives’, in O. Mir-Kasimov, ed., Intellectual Traditions in the Islamic World: The Ismaili Thread (2020), pp. 13–26.
I.B. Tauris, London, for ‘Modern Ismaili Studies and W. Ivanow’s Contributions’, in W. Ivanow, Fifty Years in the East: The Memoirs of Wladimir Ivanow, ed. F. Daftary (2015), pp. 9–36.
Routledge, London and New York, for ‘Ismailism and Gnosis’, in Garry W. Trompf, in collaboration with G.B. Mikkelsen and J. Johnston, ed., The Gnostic World (2019), pp. 337–348.
E.J. Brill, Leiden, for ‘The Ismāʿīlīs and Their Traditions’, in M. Afzal Upal and Carole M. Cusack, ed., Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements (2021), pp. 235–254.
I.B. Tauris, London, for ‘Early Ismaili Imamate: Background to the Establishment of the Fatimid Caliphate’, in F. Daftary and S. Jiwa, ed., The Fatimid Caliphate: Diversity of Traditions (2018), pp. 10–21.
Timaş Yayınları, Istanbul, for ‘The Daʿwa-Dawla Relationship in Medieval Ismaili History’, in Mehmet Öz and Fatih Yeşil, ed., Ötekilerin Peşinde: Ahmet Yaşar Ocak’a Armağan/In Pursuit of the Others: Festschrift in Honor of Ahmet Yaşar Ocak (2015), pp. 248–264.
Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, for ‘The Fatimid Caliphs: Rise and Fall’, in A. Souren Melikian-Chirvani, ed., The World of the Fatimids (2018), pp. 20–43.
Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, for ‘The Iranian Daʿis and Fatimid Egypt’, in A. Souren Melikian-Chirvani, ed., The World of the Fatimids (2018), pp. 280–291.
Istituto per l’Oriente C.A. Nallino, Rome, for ‘Nāṣir-i Ḫusraw: The Multifaceted Ismaili Dāʿī and Persian Poet of Fatimid Times’, in M. Grazia Sciortino and D. Sicari, ed., Delizia doni a voi il tempo che pasa. Studi in onore di Antonino Pellitteri (2024), pp. 83–97.
Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientali”, Centro di Studi Maġrebini, Naples, for ‘The Early Nizārī Ismailis and their Spiritual Resurrection’, in A. Straface, C. de Angelo and A. Manzo, ed., Labor limae. Atti in onore di Carmela Baffioni (2017), vol. 1, pp. 169–181.
I.B. Tauris, London, for ‘The Shiʿi Milieu of Post-Mongol Persia’, in F. Daftary and J. Esots, ed., The Renaissance of Shiʿi Islam: Facets of Thought and Practice (2022), pp. 1–14.
Brepols, Turnhout, Belgium, for ‘Khayrkhwāh-i Harātī and the Post-Mongol Revival in Nizārī Ismaili Literary Activities in Persia’, in M.A. Amir-Moezzi, ed., Raison et quête de la sagesse. Hommage à Christian Jambet (2020), pp. 215–227.
I.B. Tauris, London, for ‘Shāh Ṭāhir and the Nizārī Ismaili Disguises’, in T. Lawson, ed., Reason and Inspiration in Islam: Theology, Philosophy and Mysticism in Muslim Thought: Essays in Honour of Hermann Landolt (2005), pp. 395–406.