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The Assassin Legends: Myths of The Isma'ilis
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Allen Hibbard
Domes
02-28-1995
The Assassin Legends: Myths of The Isma`ilis.
Popular myths and legends have surround the Nizari Isma`ilis, a secretive Shi'ite sect that developed an alluring aesthetics of assassination in Fatimid Cairo during the eleventh century. The veil of mystery and secrecy, behind which the sect operated to provide protection from detractors and enemies, gave rise to a host of tales that either discredit or idolize the Isma`ilis and their leaders, Hassa...
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The eagle returns: evidence of continued Isma'ili activity at Alamut and in the south Caspian region following the Mongol conquests.
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; None of that people should be spared, not even the babe in its cradle. --Edict of Chingiz Khan and Mangu Qa'an (1) It is generally believed that the fall of the castle of Alamut in A.H. 654 (A.D. 1256) marks the end of the Isma'ili influence in Gilan. This is a great mistake. --Hyacinth L. Rabino
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The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; Interpreting Islam: Bandali Jawzi's Islamic Intellectual History. By TAMARA SONN. OXFORD and New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1996. Pp. xi + 206. $39.95. This book is primarily a translation, with introduction and notes, of Bandali Jawzi's Min Tarikh al-Harakat al-Fikriyya fi al-Islam, published
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Eagle's Nest: Ismaili Castles in Iran and Syria
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; ... Syria, by Peter Willey. London, UK: I.E. Tauris, in association with The Institute of Isma'ili Studies, 2005. xxvii + 307 pages. Maps. Color plates. Figures. Bibl. to p. 311. Index to p. 321. $25. Peter Willey's Eagle's Nest is a historical and archeological ...
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The Shiites: Ritual and Popular Piety in a Muslim Community
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Shi'ism in Contemporary India: The Badri-Vakili Controversy Among Indian Isma'ilis
The Muslim World
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Seeing No Recovery, Manager Puts Most of Fund's Portfolio into Cash.
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At Quaker, It's Energy Driving a Win Streak; Oil, Mining Stocks Help Push Fund Up 14.4% in 2005
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; Manu Daftary, who holds the second-longest winning streak in the U.S. mutual fund industry, is devoting a third of his Quaker Strategic Growth Fund's assets to shares of energy and mining companies. The Quaker fund rose 14.4 percent in 2005, exceeding the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index's advance
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