The Sound Traditions: Studies in Ismaili Texts and Thought /

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 Ismail...

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Main Authors: Poonawala, Ismail K. (Author), Rajani, Kumail (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022.

Series: Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2022.

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Call Number: BP195.I8

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Ismail K. Poonawala
  • Copyright page /
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  • Foreword /
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  • Preface /
  • Kumail Rajani
  • Chapter 1 Ismaʿili Sources for the History of South-West Arabia /
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  • Chapter 2 Ismaʿili Manuscripts from Yemen /
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  • Chapter 3 Anonymous Works and Their Ascription to Famous Authors: Are They Cases of Mistaken Identity or an Outright Forgery? /
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  • Chapter 4 The Contribution of Ismaʿili Colophons to the Discussion on the Birth and Construction of the Arabic Manuscript Tradition /
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  • Chapter 5 Discovery of the Kitāb al-asrār Ascribed to the First Fatimid Caliph-Imam al-Mahdī: Its Ramifications /
  • Ismail K. Poonawala
  • Chapter 6 Why We Need an Arabic Critical Edition with an Annotated English Translation of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ /
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  • 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 /
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  • Chapter 8 Humanism in Ismaʿili Thought: The Case of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (The Epistles of the Sincere Brethren and Faithful Friends) /
  • Ismail K. Poonawala
  • Chapter 9 An Early Doctrinal Controversy in the Iranian School of Ismaʿili Thought and Its Implications /
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  • Chapter 10 An Ismaʿili Treatise of the Iʿjāz al-Qurʾān /
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  • Chapter 11 Al-Sijistānī and His Kitāb al-Maqālīd al-Malakūtiyya /
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  • Chapter 12 Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān's Works and the Sources /
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  • Chapter 13 A Reconsideration of al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān's Madhhab /
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  • Chapter 14 The Chronology of al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān's Works /
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  • Chapter 15 Sources for al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān's Works and Their Authenticity /
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  • Chapter 16 The Beginning of the Ismaʿili Daʿwa and the Establishment of the Fatimid Dynasty as Commemorated by al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān /
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  • Chapter 17 Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān and Ismaʿili Jurisprudence /
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  • Chapter 18 The Evolution of al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān's Theory of Ismaʿili Jurisprudence as Reflected in the Chronology of His Works on Jurisprudence /
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  • Chapter 19 Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān and His Refutation of Ibn Qutayba /
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  • Copyright Acknowledgments /
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  • Bibliography /
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  • Index of Qurʾanic References /
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  • General Index /
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