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This extraordinary narrative account vividly depicts a declaration proclaimed on 8th August 11642, during the Islamic month of Ramaḍān just after noon in the mountain fortresses of Alamūt. The orator of this quite unprecedented address was none other than the Nizārī Ismāʿīlī Imām Ḥasan II, designated by the Ismāʿīlīs with the honorific title of ʿalā dhikrihi al-salām („upon whose remembrance be peace‟). The Imām had ushered in a new dawn, an age of spiritual rebirth and realisation, when God manifested Himself to His creatures in his absolute transcendent unity; an age which the Ismāʿīlīs termed “The Resurrection”. For this Shīʿa Muslim community, the long-awaited Last Day – the Qiyāma – had finally arrived.