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Ismaili History and Intellectual Traditions
Shii communities in history The study of the Ismailis : phases and issues Ismaili history and literary traditions Idris Imad al-Din and medieval Ismaili historiography A major schism in the early Ismaili movement The Ismaili dawa under the Fatimids The concept of ujja in Ismaili thought Cyclical time and sacred history in medieval Ismaili thought Ali in classical Ismaili theology Al-qadi al-numan, Ismaili law and Imami shiism The Iranian school of philosophical Ismailism The medieval Ismailis of the Iranian lands The "order of the assassins" : J. von Hammer and the Orientalist misrepresentations of the Nizari Ismailis Ismaili-Seljuq relations : conflict and stalemate Sinan and the Nizari Ismailis of Syria Hidden Imams and Mahdis in Ismaili history Religious identity, dissimulation and assimilation : the Ismaili experience