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