Mushegh Asatryan

I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies introduces this open access work. Among the various Muslim communities that were articulating their doctrinal positions in the early Islamic centuries, one in particular was known derisively as the Ghulat ('extremists'). This was owing to their specific interpretation of Islam, which included an 'extreme' devotion to the Shi'i Imams and the...