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Edited by Tazim R. Kassam and Francoise Mallison, Primus Books, 2010, Revised Edition, xxviii, 226 p, 7 illus, ISBN : 81-908918-7-5

The entire Thesis can now be downloaded - see links below the text. The first part contains the 60 pages introduction to the work, a must read.

This thesis contains a transliteration and a translation of the Das Avatara of Imam Shah ; Dr Gulshan Khakee died of cancer in Bombay at the age of 58, Saturday January 12, 2002. She graduated in teacher training in Nairobi where she taught at the AK Girl School and at the Kenya High School. She did her M.A. at Trinity College in Dublin - Ireland and her PhD. at Harvard in 1972. She was among the pioniers of Ginanic research and some of her works are listed here. ; DETAILS: "The `Das Avatara' of Satpanthi Ismailis and Imam Shahis of Indo-Pakistan." Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1972. [Contains a transliteration and translation of the Das Avatara of Imam Shah from a manuscript dated 1736AD.] She offered a copy of her Thesis to The Heritage Society on 20th January 1991. She was one of our lecturesr at the SOS Khojki Conference organized in Toronto by the Ismaili Heritage Society now on www.ismaili.net.

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

Biography and work of Qadi an Nu'man ; DETAILS: "Qadi an Nu'man, the Fatimid Jurist and Author," J.R.A.S. (1934): 1-32. Biography and work of Qadi an Nu'man.

DETAILS: "The Ismaili Khojahs of East Africa: a New Constitution and Personal Law for the Community," Middle Eastern Studies I, no. 1 (October 1964): 21-39.

Eight illustrations. The sermons of Mustansirbillah, edited and translated into English ; DETAILS: `Pandiyat-i Jawanmardi', or Advice of Manliness. Ismaili Society Series A, 6. Leiden: Brill, 1953. x and 19 and 97 and 102 pp. [Eight illustrations. The sermons of Mustansirbillah, edited and translated into English.]

DETAILS: The Aga Khans. London: Bodley Head, 1970. 285 pp.

DETAILS: The Beginnings of Ismaili Dawa in Northern India. Cairo, 1956.

DETAILS: "A Fatimid Decree of the Year 524 AH/1130 AD," B.S.O.A.S. XXIII (1960): 439-455.

DETAILS: "Epistle of the Fatimid Caliph Al-Amir (`Al-Hidaya Al Amiriyya'--Its Date and Its Purpose)," J.R.A.S. (1950): 20-31.

DETAILS: "Haji Bibi Case," Bombay Law Reporter (1909): 409-495.

DETAILS: "Ismailism in Multan and Sind," Journal of the Pakistan Hist. Society XXIII (1975): 36-57.

DETAILS: Ikhwan al Safa: The Case of the Animal vs. Man. 1978. 271 pp.

pp76 Fr.3 ; DETAILS: Review of L'Europe et L'Islam by Prince Aga Khan and Dr. Zaki Ali; Publisher, Anne-mass; Geneve, pp76 Fr.3