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This book explores the evolution of a Shia Ismaili identity and crucial aspects of the historical forces that conditioned the development of the Muslim modern in late colonial South Asia. It traces the legal process that, since the 1860s, recast a Shia Imami identity for the Ismailis, and explicates the public career of Imam Aga Khan III amid heightened religious internationalism since the late-nineteenth century, the age of 'religious internationals'. It sheds light and elaborates on the enduring legacies of questions such as the Aga's understanding of colonial modernity, his ideas of India, restructured modalities of community governance and the evolution of Imamate-sponsored institutions, key strands in scholarship that characterized the development of the Muslim and Shia Ismaili modern, and Muslim universality vis-à-vis denominational particularities that often transcended the remits of the modular nation and state structure.

Ismailites --- Shīʻah --- Shiites --- Shia Muslims --- Shiah Muslims --- Shiahs --- Shias --- Shiite Muslims --- Muslims --- Ismailians --- Ismailis --- Assassins (Ismailites) --- Imamites --- Shia --- Shiism --- Twelvers (Islam) --- Islamic sects --- Alids

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The Ismailis, among whom are the followers of the Aga Khan, rose to prominence during the fourth Islamic/tenth Christian century. They developed a remarkably successful intellectual programme to sustain and support their political activities, promoting demands of Islamic doctrine together with the then newly imported sciences from abroad. The high watermark of this intellectual movement is best illustrated in the writings of the Ismaili theoretician Abu Yaq́ub al-Sijistani. Using both published and manuscript writings of al-Sijistani that have hitherto been largely hidden, forgotten or ignored, Dr Paul Walker reveals the scholar's major contribution to the development of philosophical Shiism. He analyses his role in the Ismaili mission (da'wa) of that time and critically assesses the major themes in his combination of philosophy and religious doctrine.

Ismailites --- -Neoplatonism --- -Alexandrian school --- Church history --- Hellenism --- Philosophy --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Platonists --- Theosophy --- Ismaili --- Ismailians --- Assassins (Ismailites) --- Shīʻah --- Doctrines --- -History --- History --- Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani, Ishaq ibn Ahmad --- -Contributions in Islamic philosophy --- Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani, Ishaq ibn Ahmad, --- Contributions in Islamic philosophy. --- Neoplatonism --- History. --- Ismailis --- Alexandrian school --- Doctrines&delete& --- Abū Yaʻqūb al-Sijistānī, Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad, --- Abū Yaʻqūb al-Sijzī, Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad, --- Sijistānī, Abū Yaʻqūb Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad, --- أبو يعقوب السجستاني، إسحاق ابن احمد --- أبو يعقوب السجستاني، إسحاق بن أحمد --- أبو يعقوب السجستاني، إسحق بن أحمد --- أبو يعقوب السجستاني، اسحق بن أحمد، --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- Ismailites - Doctrines - History. --- Neoplatonism - History. --- Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani, Ishaq ibn Ahmad, - 10th cent. - Contributions in Islamic philosophy. --- Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani, Ishaq ibn Ahmad, - 10th cent.

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Muslim Spain gave rise to two unusual figures in the mystical tradition of Islam: Ibn Masarra (269/883-319/931) and Ibn al-ʿArabī (560/1165-638/1240). Representing, respectively, the beginning and the pinnacle of Islamic mysticism in al-Andalus, Ibn Masarra and Ibn al-ʿArabī embody in their writings a type of mystical discourse which is quite different from the Sufi discourse that evolved in the Islamic east during the 9th-12th centuries. In Mysticism and Philosophy in al-Andalus , Michael Ebstein points to the Ismāʿīlī tradition as one possible source which helped shape the distinct intellectual world from which both Ibn Masarra and Ibn al-ʿArabī derived. By analyzing their writings and the works of various Ismāʿīlī authors, Michael Ebstein unearths the many links that connect the thought of Ibn Masarra and Ibn al-ʿArabī to the Ismāʿīlī tradition.

Mysticism --- Islamic philosophy --- Ismailites --- Ibn Masarrah, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, --- Ibn al-ʻArabī, --- Islam --- History --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Ismaili --- Ismailians --- Assassins (Ismailites) --- Shīʻah --- Arabic philosophy --- Muslim philosophy --- Philosophy, Islamic --- Philosophy, Arab --- Islam&delete& --- Ismailis --- Ibn Masarrah, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, --- Ibn al-ʻArabī, --- Ibn al-ʿArabī, --- History. --- Ibn Masarra, --- Jabalī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, --- Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Jabalī, --- Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Masarrah, --- ابن مسرة، محمد بن عبد الله --- ابن مسرة، محمد بن عبد الله، --- Andalusi, Mehmet bin Ali, --- Ibn al-ʻArabī, Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, --- Ibn ʻArabî, --- Ibn ʻArabi, Mohyiddin, --- İbn Arabî, Muhittin, --- Ibn ʻArabī, Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, --- Ibn ʻArabī, Muḥyiddīn, --- Ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī --- Ibn Surāqah, --- İbnʼül-arabî, Muhyiddîn, --- Magribi, Mehmet bin Ali, --- Mohyiddin ibn ʻArabi, --- Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn, --- Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-ʻArabī, --- Muhittin i̇bn Arabî, --- Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, --- Muhiy al Din ibn Arabi, --- Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ʻArabī, --- Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn al-ʻArabī, --- Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻArabī, --- Muḥyiddīn ibn ʻArabī, --- Muhyiddîn İbnʼül-arabî, --- Raʼīs al-Ṣūfīyah, --- Şeyh-i ekberi, --- Shaykh al-Akbar, --- Taʼi, Mehmet bin Ali, --- T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī, --- Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī, --- Ibnu Arabi, Muhyiddin, --- ابن العربي، --- ابن عربي --- ابن عربي، --- بن العربي --- لإبن العربي، --- محيى الدين بن عربي --- Mysticism - Islam - Spain - Andalusia - History --- Islamic philosophy - Spain - Andalusia - History --- Ismailites - Spain - Andalusia - History --- Ibn Masarrah, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, - 882 or 883-931 --- Ibn al-ʿArabī, - 1165-1240