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Illustrations and maps | p. x |
Foreword | p. xiii |
Preface to the first edition | p. xv |
Preface to the second edition | p. xix |
Note on the text and abbreviations | p. xx |
Introduction: progress in the study of the Isma'ilis | p. 1 |
Phases in Isma'ili history | p. 2 |
Isma'ili historiography | p. 4 |
Anti-Isma'ili writings of other Muslims | p. 7 |
Medieval European perceptions of the Isma'ilis | p. 10 |
Orientalist perspectives | p. 22 |
Modern progress in Isma'ili studies | p. 30 |
Origins and early development of Shi'ism | p. 34 |
Origins of Shi'ism | p. 36 |
Early history of Shi'ism | p. 41 |
al-Mukhtar and the mawali | p. 52 |
The Kaysaniyya, the ghulat and the early Imamiyya | p. 57 |
Ja'far al-Sadiq's imamate and the 'Abbasids | p. 71 |
Imam al-Sadiq's teachings | p. 80 |
Early Isma'ilism | p. 87 |
The earliest Isma'ilis | p. 88 |
The da'wa of the 3rd/9th century | p. 98 |
The Isma'ili-Qarmati schism of 286/899 | p. 116 |
Establishment of Fatimid rule | p. 126 |
Aspects of early Isma'ili teachings | p. 128 |
The Fatimid period until 487/1094: dawla and da'wa | p. 137 |
Consolidation of the Fatimid caliphate in North Africa | p. 140 |
Digression on Qarmati communities | p. 147 |
al-Mu'izz and the conquest of Egypt | p. 156 |
The religious policy of al-Mu'izz | p. 163 |
al-Qadi al-Nu'man and Isma'ili jurisprudence | p. 167 |
al-'Aziz and the Fatimid campaigns in Syria | p. 172 |
al-Hakim, the Isma'ili da'wa and the Druze movement | p. 178 |
al-Zahir and Sitt al-Mulk | p. 191 |
al-Mustansir's long reign | p. 193 |
Organization of the Fatimid dawla and the Isma'ili da'wa | p. 211 |
Philosophical Isma'ilism of the Iranian da'is | p. 223 |
The Ikhwan al-Safa' and their Epistles | p. 234 |
The later Fatimids and Musta'lian Isma'ilism | p. 238 |
The Nizari-Musta'li schism of 487/1094 | p. 241 |
al-Musta'li and al-Amir | p. 243 |
al-Hafiz and the Hafizi-Tayyibi schism | p. 246 |
The later Fatimids and early Hafizi Isma'ilism | p. 248 |
The Hafizi Musta'lian da'wa in Yaman | p. 255 |
The early Tayyibi Musta'lian da'wa in Yaman | p. 261 |
Aspects of Tayyibi thought | p. 269 |
The early Tayyibi da'wa in India | p. 276 |
The Da'udi Sulaymani-'Alawi schism in Tayyibi Isma'ilism | p. 280 |
The Da'udi Bohra da'wa and community | p. 282 |
The Sulaymani da'wa and community | p. 295 |
Nizari Isma'ili history during the Alamut period | p. 301 |
Nizari Isma'ili historiography | p. 303 |
Hasan-i Sabbah and the struggle of the Persian Isma'ilis | p. 310 |
Commencement of Nizari activities in Syria | p. 331 |
Consolidation of the Nizari state and the doctrine of ta'lim | p. 335 |
Buzurg-Ummid and the Nizari-Saljuq stalemate | p. 344 |
Muhammad b. Buzurg-Ummid | p. 355 |
The proclamation of qiyama or resurrection | p. 358 |
Sinan and the Syrian Nizaris | p. 367 |
Rapprochement with Sunni Islam | p. 375 |
'Ala' al-Din Muhammad III and Nizari thought of the period | p. 377 |
Final decades of the Nizari state | p. 386 |
The post-Alamut centuries and modern developments in Nizari Isma'ili history | p. 403 |
Patterns and research problems in post-Alamut Nizari history | p. 403 |
Early post-Alamut centuries and Nizari relations with Sufism | p. 410 |
The Anjudan revival in Nizari Isma'ilism | p. 422 |
The Nizari Khojas and Satpanth Isma'ilism | p. 442 |
The Muhammad-Shahi imams and the Nizaris of Central Asia | p. 451 |
The later Qasim-Shahi Nizari imams | p. 456 |
The Aga Khans and the modern period in Nizari history | p. 463 |
Genealogical tables and lists | p. 505 |
Glossary | p. 514 |
Notes | p. 523 |
Select bibliography | p. 667 |
Index | p. 697 |
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