Series: Shi'i Heritage Series

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies. The Kitab al-Kashf is one of the earliest Ismaili texts to have reached the present day. Transmitted by the Tayybi Ismaili tradition, it is composed of six treatises, most of which, as this open-access study and first English translation argues, date back to the early years of Fatimid rule. The...

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies The exceptional intellectual richness of seventeenth-century Safavid Iran is epitomised by the philosophical school of Isfahan, and in particular by its ostensible founder, Mir Damad (d. 1631), and his great student Mulla Sadra (aka Sadr al-Din Shirazi, d. 1636). Equally important to the school is the apophatic wisdom of Rajab...

Shi'i Islam and Sufism is published by I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies. Offering new perspectives on the relationship between Shi'is and Sufis in both modern and pre-modern times, this book challenges the supposed opposition between these two esoteric traditions in Islam. It explores what could be called "Shi'i Sufism" and "Sufi-oriented Shi'ism" at various points...

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...