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The Ismaili Imams

A Biographical History

Dr Farhad Daftary (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2020
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-0-7556-1798-2 (ISBN)

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The Ismailis are the second-largest Shi‘i community in the world today, settled in over 25 countries across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and North America. They are the only Muslims to follow a living spiritual guide of their community, the Nizari Ismaili Imam. This book is the first collection of biographies of all the Ismaili Imams, from the seminal Imams of early Shi‘i Islam, through to those of the first ‘period of concealment’ when their public identities remained hidden, to the Imam-caliphs of the illustrious Fatimid dynasty, and those of the Alamut period, up to the Aga Khans of the modern period. The Ismaili Imams mines the rich scholarship of the developing field of Ismaili Studies, providing a simple and clear resource for the general reader, as well as a handy reference guide for scholars. This copiously illustrated book offers a snapshot of the lives, events, and legacies of all 49 Imams, and through them, of the Ismaili community’s storied past.

Farhad Daftary received his early education in Iran, Italy and England, and then undertook his university studies during 1958-1971 in the United States. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Subsequently, he held various academic and governmental posts in Iran, before in 1988 joining the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, where he is currently Director and Head of the Department of Academic Research and Publications. Dr Daftary is a consulting editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica, co-editor (with W. Madelung) of the Encyclopaedia Islamica, as well as the general editor of the Ismaili Heritage Series, the Ismaili Texts and Translations Series and the Shi‘i Heritage Series. An authority on Ismaili studies, he has written and edited 20 books in this field, including The Isma‘ilis: Their History and Doctrines (1990; 2nd ed., 2007); The Assassin Legends (1994); A Short History of the Ismailis (1998); Ismaili Literature: A Bibliography of Sources and Studies (2004); A History of Shi‘i Islam (2013); and (with Z. Hirji), Islam: An Illustrated Journey (2018). He has also written more than 50 articles and book chapters and some 150 encyclopaedia entries. Dr Daftary’s books have been translated into Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Gujarati and numerous European languages.

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Preface

I: The Ismaili Imamate in History

II: The Early Imams
'Ali b. Abi Talib
Husayn b. 'Ali
'Ali b. Husayn Zayn al-'Abidin
Muhammad al-Baqir
Jafar al-Sadiq
Isma'il b. Ja'far al-Sadiq
Muhammad b. Isma'il al-Maymun

III: The Concealed Imams
'Abd Allah b. Muhammad, also known as Wafi Ahmad
Ahmad b. 'Abd Allah, also known as Taqi Muhammad
Husayn b. Ahmad, also known as Radi al-Din Abd Allah

IV: The Early Fatimid Imam-caliphs
al-Mahdi
al-Qa'im
al-Mansur
al-Mu'izz
al-'Aziz
al-Hakim
al-Zahir
al-Mustansir
Nizar

V: The Imams at Alamut
Concealed Imams: al-Hadi, al-Muhtadi, al-Qahir
Hasan ala dhikrihi’l-salam
Nur al-Din Muhammad, also known as A?la Muhammad
Jalal al-Din Hasan
'Ala al-Din Muhammad
Rukn al-Din Khurshah
VI: The Early Imams after Alamut
Shams al-Din Muhammad
Qasim Shah
Islam Shah
Muhammad b. Islam Shah

VII: The Imams of the Anjudan Period
Mustansir bi’llah
'Abd al-Salam Shah
Gharib Mirza, also known as Mustansir bi’llah
Abu Dharr 'Ali
Murad Mirza
Dhu’l-Faqar 'Ali
Nur al-Din (al-Dahr) 'Ali
Khalil Allah 'Ali

VIII: The Imams in the Eighteenth Century
Shah Nizar
Sayyid 'Ali
Hasan 'Ali
Qasim 'Ali
Abu’l-Hasan 'Ali
Shah Khalil Allah

IX: The Imams in the Modern Age
Hasan 'Ali Shah, Aga Khan I
Agha 'Ali Shah, Aga Khan II
Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III
Shah Karim al-Husayni, Aga Khan IV

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Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.10.2020
Zusatzinfo	8 Maps
Sprache	englisch
Maße	190 x 248 mm
Gewicht	1000 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-7556-1798-3 / 0755617983
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-1798-2 / 9780755617982
Zustand	Neuware