Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Foreword by Christian Jambet General Introduction The author of Haft b?b Contents of Haft b?b Resurrection in Islam: An Overview Resurrection in Fatimid Ismailism Resurrection in Niz?r? Ismailism Proclamation of the Qiy?mat The Ismaili Response Contemorary Perspectives Manuscripts and Editions English Translation of Haft b?b Persian Edition of Haft b?b Bibliography Index

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A newly edited and translated version of the Haft bab, which outlines the basic tenets of Fatimid Ismaili philosophical theology

About the Author

S.J Badakhchani is a Research Associate at The Institute of Ismaili Studies. He obtained his doctorate in Islamic Philosophy at the University of Oxford and his MA in Islamic Philosophy from the faculty of Theology University of Mashhad, Iran. He has been Deputy Director of the Central Library at Firdausi University, Mashhad and Librarian at The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. He has published new editions and English translations of Sayr wa Suluk and Rawda yi taslim, as well as a collection of Tusi's three short treatises, Aghaz wa anjam, Tawalla wa tabarra and Matlub al-Mu'mimin and Diwan-i Qa'imiyyat by Hasan-i Mahmud-i Katib