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Abu-Lughod, J.
Abumaraq, S.
Aga Khan III
Ahmed, Akbar
Amin, Mohamed
Azzawi, Abbas al-
Bausani, Alessandro
Bloom, Jonathan M.
Boivin, Michel
Bolle, Kees W.
Christie, Jan Wisseman
Corbin, Henri
Cresswell, K. A. C.
Crossley, Pamela K.
Crowl, Douglas.
Daftary, Farhad
Dawadari, Ibn al-
Dennison Ross, E., Sir.
Dumasia, Navoroji M.
Ethe, Herman
Fagnan, E.
Farrukh, Umar A.
Filippani-Ronconi, Pio.
Frere, Jean-Claude.
Fu`ad, Sayyid Ayman.
Fyzee, Asaf A. A.
Gharib, Samir
Goldziher, Ignaz.
Gorianwala, Mu'izz.
Griffini
Hafizullah, Emadi.
Halm, Heinz
Hamdani, Abbas
Hassan, H. I.
Hodgson, Marshall G. S.
Hollister, J. N.
Hussein, Kamil.
Jambert, Christan.
Ivanow, Wladimir.
Kamal, Abdallah

Kassam, Tazim
Kelidar,Abbas
Khan, Dominique Sila-
Lane Poole, Stanley.
Langerman, Y. Tzvi.
Lavoie, Jean Jacques.
Lavoix, Henri.
Leaman, Oliver.
Lewis, Bernard.
Littlewood, Roland.
Lokhandwalla, S. T.
Lory, Pierre
Makarim, Sami Nasib
Markus, Kinga
Melikian, Souren
Miles, George C.
Moezzi, Mohammad Ali Amir.
Motani, Nizar A.
Murphy, Richard Mcgill
Nagel, Tilman
Nanji, Azim
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.
O'Leary
Poonawala, Ismail K.
Sanders, Paula.
Semenov, A.
Shah, Sirdar Ikbal Ali
Soret, Fréderic J
Stark, Freya.
Steigerwald, Diana.
Stern, S. M.
Strothmann, Rudolf.
Stroumsa, Sarah.
Tajddin Sadik Ali, Mumtaz Ali
Tamir, Arif.
Teufel, F
Tritton, A. S.
Wadley, Susan S.
Walker Paul
Anonymous works
Wasserman,James.


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Abu-Lughod, J.

0007aCairo: 1001 Years of the City Victorious. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971.

Abumaraq, S.

0007b. Israeli archaeologist discovers Islamic-period `Jesus coins', 1999.

Aga Khan III.

0016. Die Memoiren des Aga Khan: Welten und Zeiten. Vienna-Munich-Basel: Verlag Kurt Desh, 1954. 448 pp.

0017. The Memoirs of Aga Khan. London: Cassel, 1954.

0018. Reviewed by A. L. Tibawi in I.Q. II (1955): 68-70.

0019. Memoires. Paris: Editions Albin Michel, 1965.

0020. Reviewed in French in Asiatic Studies IX (1955): 9-14.

0020aThe Aga Khan's Vision of a Greater India reviewed by the Asiatic Review.

0020bL'Europe et L'Islam reviewed by Prince Aga Khan and Dr. Zaki Ali

0020cGlimpses of Islam reviewed byPrince Agha Khan and Dr. Zaki Ali.


Ahmed, Akbar.

0045a. Throne of Gold: The Lives of the Aga Khans. Edward, Anne. Reviewed by: Akbar Ahmed, Fellow of Selwyn College Cambridge.


Amin, Mohamed.

0045. Catalogue des documents d'archives du Caire de 239/853 à 922/1516 - depuis le IIIe/IXe siècle jusqu'à la fin de l'époque mamelouke, suivi de l'édition critique de neuf documents. Institut Français d'Archéologie Oriental, Textes Arabes et Etudes Islamiques 16. Cairo, 1981. 564 pp.

0046. Reviewed in French by Yusuf Ragib in Studia Islamica LVII (1983): 180-181.


Azzawi, Abbas al-.

0068. La profession de foi ismailienne de Ali b. Hanzala. Paris: A. Maisonneuve, 1955. 67 pp. Edited and annotated from Simt al Haqa'iq. Text published by Abbas al Azzawi, Institut Français de Damas, Damascus, 1953.

0069. Reviewed in French in Oriens IX (1953): 365-367.


Bausani, Alessandro.

0103. L'Enciclopedia dei Fratelli della Purita-Riassunto, con Introduzione e breve commento, dei 52 trattati o Espistole degli Ikhwan as-Safa. Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 1978. 284 pp.

0104. Reviewed by Alberto Ventura in Oriente Moderno LVIII (1978): 498-499.


Bloom, Jonathan M.

0103b.html.Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text & Fatimid Art at the Victoria and Albert Museums, 2000.


Boivin, Michel.

0147bc.html. Les Ismaéliens des communautés d'Asie du Sud entre islamisation et indianisation Michel Boivin, 1998, Brepols, ISBN 2-503-50687-9


Bolle, Kees W.

0104b.html. Devotion Divine: Bhakti Traditions from the Regions of India: Studies in Honour of Charlotte Vaudeville, 1996.


Christie, Jan Wisseman.

0104c.html. The medieval Tamil-language inscriptions in Southeast Asia and China, 1998.


Corbin, Henri.

0253. Nasir Khosraw: `Kitab-e Jami'al Hikmatain'. Tehran and Paris, 1953. Bibl. Iran. Vol. 3a (in cooperation with Mo'in Moh.) French, 147 pp.; Persian, 450 pp.

0254. Reviewed in Oriens VIII: 191-194.

0254b.Trilogie ismaélienne. Traductions de l’arabe et du persan,

0254c .Le Dévoilement des choses cachées
Recherches de philosophie ismaélienne
140 pages, 90 F

0255. Reviewed in German by R. Strothmann in Der Islam XXXI (1954): 253-258.

0258. Commentaire de la Qasida ismaélienne d'Abu'l Haitham Jorjani attribuée à Mohamed b. Sorkh de Nishapour. Paris: Adrien

Maisonneuve, 1955. Persian text, edited with an introduction and comparative outline in French. French, 120 pp.

0259. Reviewed by S. M. Stern in B.S.O.A.S. XXII: 585-588.

0260 Reviewed by Wilferd Madelung in Oriens XVII (1964): 313-314.

0300. Temps cyclique et gnose ismaélienne. Paris: Berg International, 1982.

0301. Reviewed by Pierre Lory in Studia Iranica (Abstracta Iranica), Suppl. 6, Institut Français d'Iranologie de Téhéran Leiden: Brill, 1983. P. 123.


Cresswell, K. A. C.

0306. The Muslim Architecture of Egypt. Vol. I: Ikhsids and Fatimids, A.D. 937-1171. Oxford, 1952.

0307. Reviewed in German by Hellmut Braun in Der Islam XXXI (1954): 277-279.


Crossley, Pamela K.

0307b.html. The Forgotten Queen of Islam, 2000.


Crow, Douglas.

0306b. Abu Ya qub al-Sijistani: Intellectual Missionary.


FARHAD DAFTARY,

fd0328d The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Isma'ilis (I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd: London, 1994), 213 pp

fd0328e. The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids.


Dawadari, Ibn al-.

0329. Die Chronik des Ibn Dawadari, Sechster Teil: Der Bericht &ber die Fatimiden, ed. Salah ad-Din al-Munaggid. Deutsches Arch. Inst. Kairo, Quellen zur Gesch. des Isl. Aegyptens 1.f. Cairo, 1961.

0330Reviewed by B. Lewis in BSOAS XXVI (1963): 429-431.


Dennison Ross, E., Sir.

0338. "Summary and Review of an Article by Ivanow on Ismailis," J.R.A.S. (1919): 429-435.


Dumasia, Navoroji M.

0364. The Aga Khan and his Ancestors - A Bibliographical and Historical Sketch. Bombay: Times of India Press, 1939. 375 pp.

0365 Reviewed by J. N. Hollister in M.W. XXXI (1941): 300.


Ethe, Herman.

0385. "Nasir Chusrau's Rushanainama oder Buch der Erleuchtung," Z.D.M.G. XXXIII (1879): 645-665, XXXIV (1880): 428-464, 617-642. [Text and translation, with notes and critical biographical appendix, ed. and transl. by Herman Ethe.]

0386. Reviewed by F. Teufel in ZDMG XXXVI (1882): 96-114.


Fagnan, E.

0398. "Le Livre de la félicité (Sa'adat Nama), par Naçir ed-Din Khosrou," Z.D.M.G. XXXIV (1880): 643-674, XXXVI (1882): 96-114. Edited and translated by E. Fagnan.

0399. Reviewed in German by F. Teufel in Z.D.M.G. XXXVI (1882): 96-114.


Farrukh, Umar A.

0406. Ikhwan us-Safa. Beirut, 1945. 136 pp.

0407. Review in English by Tritton in BSOAS XII (1947): 238.


Filippani-Ronconi, Pio.

0417. Ummu'l Kitab. Naples, 1966. 301 pp. Introduction, transla tion and notes by Pio Filippani Ronconi.

0418. Reviewed in Der Islam (1970): 95.


Frere, Jean-Claude.

0436. L'Ordre des Assassins. Paris: Editions Grasset, 1973.

0437. Reviewed in French in Abstracta Islamica XXIX (1975): 79.


Fu`ad, Sayyid Ayman.

0442. Choix de passages de la `Chronique d'Egypte' d'Ibn Muyas sar, ed. Ayman Fu`ad Sayyid. Arabic Texts and Islamic Studies, XVII. Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1981. vii and 221 pp.

0443. Reviewed in French in Studia Islamica LVII (1983): 181-182.


Fyzee, Asaf A. A.

0445. "Studies in Isma'il

0448. "The Ismaili Law of Muta'a," J.B.B.R.A.S., (1932): 85-92 and Bombay Law Reporter, Journal XXXIII (1931): 30-32. 0449. Ismaili Law of Wills. Bombay, 1933. London: Oxford University, 1934. Also in Bombay Law Reporter XXXIV (1932): 89 ff.

0450. Reviewed by W. Ivanow in J.B.B.R.A.S. n.s. X (1934): 79.

0451. Reviewed by Fitzgerald in B.S.O.A.S. (1933/35): 710-711.

0461. A Shi'ite Creed. I.R.A., ser. 9. Calcutta: Oxford Universi ty Press. xiii and 144 pp.

0462. Reviewed by John N. Hollister in M.W. XXXV (1945): 162.

0467. Outlines of Muhammadan Law. 3rd ed. London: Oxford Univer sity Press, 1964.

0468. Reviewed in German by Otto Spies in Der Islam XLII (1965): 94.



Gharib, Samir

0468b.html. The Soul of Old Cairo, 2000.

Goldziher, Ignaz.

0526. Le dogme et la loi de l'Islam. Paris, 1920.[The English translation is entitled "Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law.] P. 202.

0527. Reviewed by P. Walker in JAOS CIII (1983): 761.


Gorianwala, Mu'izz.

0535. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Fyzee Collection of Ismaili Manuscripts. Bombay: University of Bombay, 1965. 172 pp. English and Arabic.

0536. Reviewed by B. Lewis in B.S.O.A.S. (1932): 153-154.


Griffini.

0546. "Die Jungste Ambrosianische Sammlung," ZDMG LXIX (1915): 63-88. [Summary of Fatimid and Mustaliens works found by the author.]

0547. Reviewed by Strothmann in "Handschriften und Drucke," Der Islam XXI (1933): 292-311.


Hafizulllah, Emadi

0546b.html. The End of Taqiyya: Reaffirming the Religious Identity of Ismailis in Shughnan, Badakhshan - Political Implications for Afghanistan, 1998.


Halm, Heinz.

0576. "Kosmologie und Heilslehre der fr&hen Ismailiya - eine studie zur islamischen Gnosis," Z.D.M.G. (1978).

0577. Reviewed by Jan Samuelsson in Acta Orientalia (Copenhagen) XLIII (1982): 112-115.

0577b. The Fatimids and their Traditions of Learning Reviewed by I.B. Tauris/The Institute of Ismaili Studies London, 1997

0577c. The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids Reviewed by Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia University.

0580b"Das historische Buch". Fatimas Erben, Heinz Halm über die Fatimiden in Ägypten.


Hamdani, Abbas.

0584areview of "`Kitab az-Zinat' of Abu Hatim ar-Razi." In Actes du XXIe Congrès International des Orientalistes. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1949. Pp. 291-294.


Hassan, H. I.

0621a review of "The Fatimids and the Umayyads in the IVth Century of the Hijra (Xth Cent. A.D.)." In Actes XXIe Congrès International des Orientalistes. Paris, 1948.

Hodgson, Marshall G. S.

0634. The Order of the Assassins: The struggle of the early Nizari Ismailis against the Islamic world. The Hague: Mouton, 1955. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1980. 325 pp.

0635. Reviewed in French by J. Sourdel-Thomine in Arabica III (1956): 216-217.


Hollister, J. N.

0648. The Shia of India. London, 1953. Nizari Imam: pp. 300 ff.; Khojas: pp. 339-412.

0649. Reviewed by S. M. Stern in Oriens VII (1954): 362-363.


Hussein, Kamil.

0665a "Ismaili Ideas in the Egyptian Poetry of the Fatimid Period." In Actes du XXIe Congrès des Orientalistes. Paris, 1949. Pp. 294-295.


Jambert, Christian.

0665b La Convocation d’Alamût Rawdat al-taslîm (Le Jardin de la vraie foi)Somme de philosophie ismaélienne, 384 pages, 185 F, 1996

0665b La Grande Résurrection d’Alamût (Les formes de la liberté dans le shî'isme ismaélien), 424 pages, 27,50 €,


Ivanow, Wladimir.

0682. (Title in Russian) [Ismaili Manuscripts in the Asiatic Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Collection of I. Zarubin (1916)], Bulletin de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Russie, ser. 6, II (1917): 359-386.

0683. Reviewed by E. D. Ross in JRAS (1919): 429-435.

0693. The `True Meaning of Religion' by Shihabu'd-Din Shah al-Husayni. Transl. Ivanow. London: Oxford University Press, 1933.

0694. Reviewed by J. N. Hollister in M.W. XXIX (1939): 307-308.

0695. `Kalami Pir': a Treatise on Ismaili Doctrine. I.R.A. se ries, no. 4. Bombay, 1935.

0696. Reviewed by M. P. in I.C. (1935): 671-673.

0697. Reviewed by J. N. Hollister in M.W. XXIX (1939): 308-309.

0698. Reviewed by M. Guidi in RSO XVIII: 232-233. 0699. "`Umm'ul Kitab'," Der Islam XXIII (1936): 1-132. Introduction in English.

0700. `Diwan' of Khaki Khorassani. Ed. by Ivanow. London: Oxford University Press.

0701. Reviewed by J. N. Hollister in M.W XXIX (1939): 307.

0702. Two Early Ismaili Treatises. I.R.A. series, no. 2. Bombay, 1933. Pp. 9-64. Tusi's Haft-babi Baba Sayyid-na and Matlubu'l- mu'minin.

0703. Reviewed by J. N. Hollister in M.W. XXIX (1939): 309.

0705. A Creed of the Fatimids. Bombay: Qayyimah Press, 1936. An English summary of the Taju'l-'Aqa'id of Sayyid-na `Ali b. Muhammad b. al-Walid.

0706. Reviewed by M. Guidi, in RSO XVIII: 293-302.

0717. Ismaili Tradition Concerning the Rise of the Fatimids. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1942. Also, I.R.A. series, no. 10. Bombay, 1942. xxii and 337 and 113 pp. Contains a number of Ismaili texts edited in Arabic and translated into English.

0718. Reviewed by J. N. Hollister in M.W. XXXV (1945): 69-70.

0721. Nasir-i Khusraw and Ismailism. Ismaili Society Series B, 5. Bombay, 1948.

0722b. Review of several of the items listed above in Oriens II: 353, 359.

0733a. review of The True Meaning of Religion. I.R.A. series, no. 3. Bombay, 1956. [Translation of Risala Dar Haqiqat-i Din of Shihabu'd-din Shah al-Husayni.]


Kamal, Abdallah

0722ba. Abdallah Kamal, livre en arabe « Les Fatimides et leurs monuments en Afrique, au Yémen et en Egypte » publié par Dar al-afaq al-arabiya, Le Caire 2001.


Kassam, Tazim

0722b. Songs of wisdom and circles of dance: Hymnes of the Santpanth Ismaili Muslims saint, Pir Shams. (McGill Studies in the History of Religions.) Xvi, 424 pp.Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995. $16.95.
Reviewed by ZAWAHIR MOIR


Kelidar, Abbas

0722c. P.J. Vatikiotis: an appreciation.


Khan, Dominique Sila-

0722b. Conversions and Shifting Identities


Lane Poole, Stanley.

0817. A History of Egypt in the Middle Ages. New York, Haskell House, 1969. (Repr. of 1901 ed). 382p LC68-25246. DT95.L35 1969. DDC 962'.02

0817b. Review of "A History of Egypt"


Langerman,Y. Tzvi.

0817a. Alchemie, Ketzerei, Apokryphen in fruhen Islam: Gesammelte Aufsatze, 1998.


Lavoie, Jean Jacques.

0817c. Diane Steigerwald. 1997. La pensée philosophique et théologique de Shahrastani. 548/1153. Québec : Les Presses de l'Université Laval.


Lavoix, Henri.

0823. Monnaies à légendes arabes frappées en Syrie par les Croisés. Paris: Baer et Cie, 1877. 62 pp.

0824. Reviewed in French by R. Chalon, RNB (1878), pp. 157 ff.


Leaman, Oliver.

0834b. Hamid Al-Din Al-Kirmani: Ismaili Thought in the Age of Al-Hakim, 2000.


Lewis, Bernard.

0837. "Studies on the History of the Qarmati and Ismaili Movements from the Eighth to the Eleventh Centuries." Ph.D. diss., University of London, 1939.

0838. Review of al-Hidayatu'l Amiriya, B.S.O.A.S. IX (1939): 255-57.

0839. Origins of Ismailism. Cambridge: Heffers, 1940; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975. 115 pp. A study of the historical background of the Fatimid Caliphate.

0840. Reviewed by Ivanow in J.B.B.R.A.S. n.s. XVI (1940): 107-110.

0841. Reviewed by J. N. Hollister in M.W. XXXI (1941): 299.

0842. Reviewed in French by Albert Gateau in Hespéris XXXIII (1946): 438-439.

0854. The Assassins: a Radical Sect in Islam. London, 1967. New York: Basic Books, 1968. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971. 168 pp., 8 plates.

0854a. Review of "The Assassins"

0854b. Review of "The Assassins"


Littlewood, Roland

0854c. Social institutions and psychological explanations: Druze reincarnation as a therapeutic resource.


Lokhandwalla, S. T.

0871. `Kitab Ikhtilaf Usuli'l-Madhahib' of Qadi Nu'man b. Muhammad. Ed. with a critical introd. by S. T. Lokhandwalla. Simla: Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, 1972. 140 pp. [Methodical refutation of the theories of Sunni schools. Introduction in English.]

0872 Reviewed by Herbert J. Liebesny in M.W. LXVI (1976): 229-231.


Lory, Pierre

0872bAlchimie et mystique en terre d’Islam
Date de parution : 1989
192 pages, 98 F


Makarim, Sami Nasib

0906. Abu Firas: `Ash-Shafiya' -- An Isma'ili Treatise. Edited and translated with an introduction and commentary. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1966. 260 pp.

0907. Reviewed in German by Joseph Van Ess in Der Islam XLVI (1970): 92-95.

Mamour, Prince P. H.

1924. 232 pp. Karachi: Indus Publications, 1979. Distinguishes between pro- and anti-Fatimid sources related to their genealogy.

0917. Reviewed by W. Ivanow in J.B.B.R.A.S. n.s. II (1935): 71-72.

0918. Reviewed by H. A. R. Gibb in BSOAS VII (1933/35): 984-985.

Mann, J.

0920. The Jews in Egypt and Palestine under the Fatimids. Preface by S. D. Goitein. 1922; rpt. New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1970.

0921. Reviewed by Claude Cahen in JESHO XV (1972).

Marquet, Yves.

0939. La philosophie des Ihwan al Safa. Algiers: Editions SNED, 1975. Ph.D. thèse, Université de Lille, 1975.

0940 Reviewed by Zimmermann in B.S.O.A.S. XXXVIII: 148-150.


Markus, Kinga

0940b. Songs of Wisdom and Circles of Dance: Hymns of the Satpanth Isma'ili Muslim Saint, Pir Shams.


Melikian, Souren.

0940c. Broken Mirror of a Major Arab Culture, 1998.


Miles, George C.

0981. Fatimids Coins in the Collection of the University Museum, Philadelphia, and The Numismatic Society. Numismatic Notes and Monographs, CXXI. New York: American Numismatic Society, 1951. iv and 52 pp., 6 plates.

0982 . Reviewed by H. Hazard in M.W. XLII (1952): 147-149.

0983. Reviewed in German by Bertold Spuler in Der Islam XXXII (1957): 113.


Moezzi, Mohammad Ali Amir.

0982b . Le Guide divin dans le shî’isme originel
Aux sources de l’ésotérisme en Islam
384 pages, 158 F


Motani, Nizar A.

0982c. Culture, Transnationalism, and Civil Society: Aga Khan Social Service Initiatives in Tanzania, 2001.


Murphy, Richard Mcgill.

0982d. Cairo: The City Victorious, 1999.


Nagel, Tilman

1016. "Fr&he Ismailiya und Fatimiden im Lichte der `Risalat Iftitah ad-Da'wa'," Banner Orientalistische Studien n.s., no. XXIII. Bonn: Selbstverlag des Orientalischen Seminars der Universit"t, 1972.

1017. Reviewed by G. R. Hawting in B.S.O.A.S. XXXVI (1973): 650.


Nanji, Azim

1022. The Nizari Isma'ili Tradition in the Indo-Pakistan Subcontinent. Delmar: Caravan Books, 1978. 215 pp.

1023. Reviewed by P. Walker in MESA Bulletin XVI (1982): 52-53.

1023b. The Bujh Niranjan: An Ismaili Mystical Poem, 1997.


Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.

1035. Ismaili Contributions to Islamic Culture. Ed. by S. H. Nasr. Publication no. 35. Tehran: Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, 1977. 265 pp.

1036. Reviewed by P. Walker in MESA Bulletin XV, no. 2 (1981):


O'Leary

1058. A Short History of the Fatimid Caliphate. London: Kegan Paul, 1923.

1058aReviewed by O'Leary in english

1059. Reviewed by W. G. Shellabear in M.W. XIII (1923): 312.


Poonawala, Ismail K.

1093. Biobibliography of Ismaili Literature. Studies in Near Eastern Culture and Society. Malibu, Calif.: Undena Publications, 1977. xix and 533 pp. [Lists approximately 1,300 primary sources.]

1094. Reviewed by Rex Smith in B.S.O.A.S. XLII (1979): 382-383.

1095. Reviewed in German by Annemarie Schimmel in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung LXXVIII, no. 4 (1983): 395-396.

1096. Reviewed by P. Walker in J.N.E.S. XLVI (1982): 154-155.


Sanders, Paula.

1198. "Protivorechiya v ucheniyi o pereseleniyi dush u Pamirskikh ismailitov i u Nasiri Khosrova" [Contradictions in the views on metempsychosis in the works of Nasir-i Khusraw and Ismaili chiefs of the Pamir], Bulletin de l'Université de l'Asie Centrale IX (1926): 103-117. In Russian.

1199. Review of Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travellers Provision (Kitabi Zadu'l Musafirin), in Iran I (1927): 224-231.


Semenov, A.

1198. "Protivorechiya v ucheniyi o pereseleniyi dush u Pamirskikh ismailitov i u Nasiri Khosrova" [Contradictions in the views on metempsychosis in the works of Nasir-i Khusraw and Ismaili chiefs of the Pamir], Bulletin de l'Université de l'Asie Centrale IX (1926): 103-117. In Russian.

1199. Review of Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travellers Provision (Kitabi Zadu'l Musafirin), in Iran I (1927): 224-231.


Shah, Sirdar Ikbal Ali

1209. The Prince Aga Khan: an Authentic Life Story. London: John Long Ltd., n.d. 249 pp.

1210 Reviewed in M.W. XXIV (1934): 199-201.


Soret, Fréderic J

1228. "Lettre à M.C.J. Tornberg sur quelques monnaies des dynasties Alides," Revue Archéologique XIII (1856), pp. 129-136.

1229. Reviewed in French by R. Chalon, RNB (1856), p. 249.

1230. Reviewed in French by E. Rodiger, ZDMG (1856), p. 377.


Stark, Freya.

1240. The Valleys of the Assassins. London, 1934. Rpt. under the title The Valleys of the Assassins and Other Persian Tales. London:Century Publishing, 1983.

1241. Reviewed by L. Lockhart in B.S.O.A.S. (1935): 708-711.


Steigerwald, Diana.

1241c. Faith (IMAN) and intellect ('AGL) in Shi'ite tradition, 2000.

1241d. La pensée philosophique et théologique de Shahrastani. 548/1153, 1997.


Stern, S. M.

1258. Fatimid Decrees: Original Documents from the Fatimid Chancery. Oxford: All Souls College, 1963. 188 pp. and 48 plates.

1259. Reviewed in German by Heribert Busse in Oriens XX (1967): 224-228.

1260. Reviewed in French in JESHO IX (1966): 315-316.


Strothmann, Rudolf.

1276. Die Geheimlehre der Batiniten nach der Apologie `Dogmatik des Hausses Muhammed' von Muhammed Ibn al-Hassan ad-Dailami. Ed. by R. Strothmann. Bibliotheca Islamica, II. Istanbul and Leipzig, 1938. 15 - 137 pp.

1277. Reviewed in R.E.I., Abstracta Islamica VIII: 15-16.

1283. Kitab al-Kashf. By Ja'far b. Mansur al Yaman. Oxford: Published for the I.R.A. by Oxford University Press, 1952.

1284. Reviewed by Zahid Ali in I.C. XXVIII (1954): 273-274.


Stroumsa, Sarah.

1284. The Wellsprings of Wisdom: A study of Abu Ya qub al-Sijistani's Kitabal-Yanabi Including a Complete English Translation with Commentary and Notes on the Arabic Text.(book reviews)


Mumtaz Ali Tajddin Sadik Ali

1290b. Ismailis through History by Mumtaz Ali

1290c. 101 Ismaili Heroes


Tamir, Arif.

1296. Arba` Rasa'il Isma`iliyya. London: Luzac, 1953. 135 pp. In Arabic.

1297. Reviewed by S.M. Stern in B.S.O.A.S. II (1954): 169-171.

1298. La `Qasida Suriya' de Muh. b. Ali b. Hasan as-Suri. Damascus: I.F.D., 1955. 74 pp. [Introduction in French, text in Arabic.]

1299. Reviewed by James Robson in B.S.O.A.S. (1972): 150-151.

1301. Textes pour l'étude de la pensée ismaélienne: La `Qasida Safiya'. Arabic text established and annotated by A. Tamir. Beirut, 1961. xxii and 99 pp.

1302. Reviewed by James Robson in B.S.O.A.S. (1972): 150-151.

1303. Reviewed in German by Joseph van Ess in Der Islam XLVI (1970): 92-102.


Teufel, F

1310. "Zu Nasir Chusrau's `Rushanainama' und zu `Le Livre de la Félicité'," Z.D.M.G. XXXVI (1882): 96-114. [Review of Ethé's and Fagnan's editions.]


Tritton, A. S.

1331. Review of a book by Dr. Farrukh on the Brethren of Purity," in B.S.O.A.S. XII (1947/48): 238.


Wadley, Susan S.

1331b. Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits, 2000.


Walker Paul

1373. review of "Abu Ya'cub al Sijistani and the Development of Isma'ili Neoplatonism." Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1974. 226 pp.

1373. La Quietude de l'intellect: Neoplatonisme et gnose ismaelienne dans l'oeuvre de Hamid ad-Din al-Kirmani (Xe/XIe s.)." Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago


Anonymous works

1437. Review in French of Zahid Ali, La vérité sur notre secte ismai'ilite et sur son système (Urdu text), in Abstracta Islamica XI, p. 13.


Wasserman, James

. Review in English of the Book: The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven.

no12589. Conversions and Shifting Identities : Ramdev Pir and the Ismailis in Rajasthan/Dominique-Sila Khan. 1997, 294 p.,



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