Fortresses of the intellect: Ismaili and other Islamic studies in honour of Farhad Daftary
London ; New York : in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies
I B Tauris & Co Ltd ; London
Includes bibliographical references )p. 521 - 571( and index
edited by Omar Ali-de-Unzaga
Introduction : a biographical sketch / Omar Ali de Unzaga -- Bibliography of the works of Farhad Daftary -- Persian, the other sacred language of Islam : some brief notes / Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi -- Sunni claims to Imam Jafar al-Sadiq / Hamid Algar -- The Kitab al-rusum wa₼l-izdiwaj wa₼l-tartib attributed to Abdan )d. 982/998( : edition of the Arabic text and translation / Wilferd Madelung and Paul E. Walker -- Abu Tammam on the Mubayyida / Patricia Crone -- The Ikhwan al-Safa₼ : between al-Kindi and al-Farabi / Abbas Hamdani -- Ibda, divine imperative and prophecy in the Rasa₼il Ikhwan al-Safa / Carmela Baffioni -- Some aspects of the external relations of the Qaramita in Bahrayn / Istvan Hajnal -- A distinguished Slav eunuch of the early Fatimid period : al Ustadh Jawdhar / Hamid Haji -- Al-Qadi al-Numan and his refutation of Ibn Qutayba / Ismail K. Poonawala -- The Risala al-Mudhhiba attributed to al-Qadi al-Numan : important evidence for the adoption of Neoplatonism by Fatimid Ismailism at the time of al-Muizz? / Daniel De Smet -- Cosmos into verse : two examples of Islamic philosophical poetry in Persian / Alice C. Hunsberger -- Early evidence for the reception of Nasir-i Khusraw's poetry in Sufism : Ayn al-Qudat's letter on the Ralimis / Hermann Landolt -- A dream come true : empowerment through dreams reflecting Fatimid-Sulayhid relations / Delia Cortese -- From the "Moses of reason" to the "Khidr of the Resurrection" : the oxymoronic transcendent in Shahrastani's Majlis-i maktub-- dar Khwarazm / Leonard Lewisohn -- Poems of the Resurrection : Hasan-i Mahmud-i Katib and his Diwan-i Qa₼imiyyat / S. Jalal Badakhchani -- Further notes on the Turkish names in Abu₼l-Fadl Bayhaqi's Tarikh-i Masudi / C. Edmund Bosworth -- A book list from a seventh/thirteenth-century manuscript found in Bamyan / Iraj Afshar -- What's in a name? : Tughtegin, "the Minister of the Antichrist"? / Carole Hillenbrand -- Safavids and "subalterns" : the reclaiming of voices / Andrew J. Newman -- Compromise and conciliation in the Akhbari-Usuli dispute : Yusuf al-Bahrani's assessment of Abd Allah al-Samahiji's Munyat al-Mumarisin / Robert Gleave