The Ismailis in the Middle Ages : a history of survival, a search for salvation /
In the 13th century, an edict of the Mongol warlord Genghis Khan ordained that the Ismaili Muslims, who had hitherto resisted all attempts at subjugation, be utterly destroyed. This text examines the most obscure portion of this period, from the mid 13th century to the end of the 15th century.
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Recovering a lost history
- The eagle returns
- Veiling the sun
- Summoning to the truth
- Possessors of the command
- Qibla of the world
- The way of the seeker
- Salvation and imamate
- Conclusion.
