Muntaz[a.sup.[subset]] al-akhbar fi akhbar al-d[u.sup.[subset]]at al-akhyar (The History of the Ism[a.sup.[subset]]ili Tayyibi d[a.sup.[subset]]wa up to the D[a.sup.[contains]]udi-Sulaymani Schism).(Review)

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Muntaz[a.sup.[subset]] al-akhbar fi akhbar al-d[u.sup.[subset]]at al-akhyar (The History of the Ism[a.sup.[subset]]ili Tayyibi d[a.sup.[subset]]wa up to the D[a.sup.[contains]]udi-Sulaymani Schism), by Qutb al-Din Sulaymani Burhanpuri. Edited by SAMER F. TRABOULSI. Beirut: DAR AL-GHARB AL-ISLAMI. 1999. Pp. 318.

This well produced and finely printed edition of an Arabic text written by an Indian Ism[a.sup.[subset]]ili Bohra during the first half of the thirteenth/nineteen...

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