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Paul E. Walker

Master of the Age

An Islamic Treatise on the Necessity of the Imamate

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About 405/1015 Ismaili da'i Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani composed a treatise he called Lights to Illuminate the Proof of the Imamate (al-Masabih fi ithbat al-imama) in the bold hope of convincing Fakhr al-Mulk, the Shi'i wazir of the Buyids in Baghdad, to abandon the Abbasids and support the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim. This work offers a translation.

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  • ISBN: 978-1-84511-604-0
  • EAN: 9781845116040
  • Produktnummer: 2911967
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Sprache: Arabisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.8 cm 569 g
  • Abbildungen: 32 pp 4/4 plates
  • Gewicht: 569

Über den Autor


Paul E. Walker is a historian of ideas with special interests in Fatimid history and Ismaili thought. He is currently a research associate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His previous books include: Early Philosophical Shi 1ism (1993), Abu Ya1qub al Sijistani: Intellectual Missionary (1996), Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani: Ismaili Thought in the Age of al-Hakim (1999), Exploring an Islamic Empire: Fatimid History and Its Sources (2002), and with Wilferd Madelung, The Advent of the Fatimids: A Contemporary Shi 1i Witness (2000).

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