Fortresses of the Intellect : Ismaili and Other Islamic Studies in Honour of Farhad Daftary.

Front Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction: A Biographical Sketch -- 2. Bibliography of the Works of Farhad Daftary -- 3. Persian, the Other Sacred Language of Islam: Some Brief Notes -- 4. Sunni Claims to Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq -- 5. The Kitāb al-Rusūm wa'l-izdiwāj wa'l-tartīb Attributed to ʿAbdān (d. 286/899): Edition of the Arabic Text and Translation -- 6. Abū Tammām on the Mubayyiḍa -- 7. The Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ: Between al-Kindī and al-Fārābī -- 8. Ibdāʿ, Divine Imperative and Prophecy in the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ -- 9. Some Aspects of the External Relations of the Qarāmiṭa in Baḥrayn -- 10. A Distinguished Slav Eunuch of the Early Fatimid Period: al-Ustādh Jawdhar -- 11. Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān and his Refutation of Ibn Qutayba -- 12. The Risāla al-Mudhhiba Attributed to al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān: Important Evidence for the Adoption of Neoplatonism by Fatimid Ismailism at the Time of al-Muʿizz? -- 13. Cosmos into Verse: Two Examples of Islamic Philosophical Poetry in Persian -- 14. Early Evidence for the Reception of Nāṣir-i Khusraw's Poetry in Sufism: ʿAyn al-Quḍāt's Letter on the Taʿlīmīs -- 15. A Dream Come True: Empowerment Through Dreams Reflecting Fatimid-Sulayhid Relations1 -- 16. From the 'Moses of Reason' to the 'Khiḍr of the Resurrection': The Oxymoronic Transcendent in Shahrastānī's Majlis-i maktūb … dar Khwārazm -- 17. Poems of the Resurrection: Ḥasan-i Maḥmūd-i Kātib and his Dīwān-i Qāʾimiyyāt -- 18. Further Notes on the Turkish Names in Abu'l-Faḍl Bayhaqī's Tārīkh-i Masʿūdī -- 19. A Book List from a Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Manuscript Found in Bāmyān1 -- 20. What's in a Name? Tughtegin - 'the Minister of the Antichrist'? -- 21. Safavids and 'Subalterns': The Reclaiming of Voices.

22. Compromise and Conciliation in the Akhbārī-Uṣūlī Dispute: Yūsuf al-Baḥrānī's Assessment of ʿAbd Allāh al-Samāhījī's Munyat al-Mumārisīn -- Bibliography -- Index.

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