| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration, Dates and Abbreviations -- 1. Ismaili History and Historiography: Phases, Sources and Studies -- Phases in Ismaili History -- Evolution of Ismaili Historiography -- Anti-Ismaili Writings of Other Muslims -- The Assassim Legends of Medieval Westerners -- Orientalist Perspectives -- Modern Progress in Ismaili Studies -- Notes -- 2. Origins and Early History: Shī'īs, Ismailis and Qarmaṭīs -- Diveristy in Early Islam -- Origins of Shī'īsm -- Early History of Shī'īsm: The Kaysāniyya and the Imāmiyya -- Ja'far Al-Sādiq's Imamate, Abu'l Khattāb and Ismā'īl -- The Earliest Ismailis -- The Da'wa of the 3rd/9th Century -- The Schism of 286/899 and its Consequences -- Early Ismaili Doctrines -- Notes -- 3. The Fatimid Age: Dawla and Da'wa -- Overview -- Foundation and Consolidation of the Fatimid Caliphate -- Fatimid Achievements under al'Mu'izz -- Philosophical Ismailism of the Iranian Dā'īs -- Fatimid Ismaili Da'wa and Dā'īs: Cairo and the 'Islands' -- The Nizārī-Musta'lī Schism of 487/1094 -- Later Fatimids and Earlt Musta'lī Ismailism -- Notes -- 4. The Alamūt Period in Nizārī Ismaili History -- Overview -- Ḥasan Ṣabbāḥ and the Revolt of the Persian Ismailis -- The Doctrine of Ta'līm and Consolidation of the Nizārī State -- The Nizārī-Saljuq Stalement -- Proclamation of Qiyāma or Resurrection -- The Final Decades -- Notes -- 5. Later Developments: Continuity and Modernisation -- Post-Alamūt Patterns and Research Problems -- Early Post-Alamūt Centuries and NIzārī Relations with Sufism -- The Anjudān Revival in Nizārī History -- The Khojas and Satpanth Ismailism -- The Bohras and Tayyibī Ismailism -- Modern Developments in the Nizārī Community -- Notes -- Glossary -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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