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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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Paul E. Walker looks at this seminally important Ismaili missionary from the tenth century (Islamic fourth century) from a fresh perspective. Al-Sijistani and his thought are presented in this book much as he might have done himself if he had written for a more modern audience. Though long neglected by historians of Islamic philosophy, al-Sijistani's recently recovered writings prove that he deserves careful consideration both as a philosopher and as an exponent of the intellectual understanding of Islam. The old problem of the meaning of science and religion and their interactions as reflected in the thought of an Ismaili author from a remote period is now interpreted within a framework that provides broad coherence to disparate ideas and obscure doctrines which survive only piecemeal from medieval Arabic books and treatises. Here, al-Sijistani's contributions appear all the more cogent and impressive despite the distance of a thousand years that separate him from us.

Islamic philosophy. --- Ismailites --- Neoplatonism --- Doctrines --- History. --- Abū Yaʻqūb al-Sijistānī, Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad,

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"The chapters of this volume contain a series of detailed studies of various aspects of Fatimid rule in the regions of its Mediterranean and Near Eastern empire, 909 to 1171 AD, including separately the role of the imam-caliph, wazir, chief qadi and da i, and other political and public offices of this Shi i caliphate. Geographically it covers North Africa, Sicily, the Levant, Hijaz, Cairo and Egypt in the medieval period, with special attention to books, science and libraries, court society, festivals, intellectual traditions and Ismaili doctrines, its religious appeal, military, enemies and rivals, among them the Abbasids, Umayyads, and Ibadis"--

Fatimites. --- Fatimites --- History.

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Ismailites --- Fatimites --- History --- History. --- Ismailites - History --- Fatimites - History

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Ismailites --- Ismailites --- Ismailites --- Islamic philosophy. --- Doctrines --- History. --- Doctrines --- Early works to 1800.