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<br> "<em>None of that people should be spared, not even the babe in its cradle.</em>" With these chilling words, the Mongol warlord Genghis Khan declared his intention to destroy the Ismailis, one of the most intellectually and politically significant Muslim communities of medieval Islamdom. The massacres that followed convinced observers that this powerful voice of Shi'i Islam had been forever silenced. Little was heard of these people for centuries, until their recent and dramatic emergence from obscurity. Today they exist as a dynamic and thriving community established in over twenty-five countries. Yet the interval between what appeared to have been their total annihilation, and their modern, seemingly phoenix-like renaissance, has remained shrouded in mystery. Drawing on an astonishing array of sources gathered from many countries around the globe, <em>The Ismailis in the Middle Ages:</em> <em>A History of Survival, A Search for Salvation</em> is a richly nuanced and compelling study of the murkiest portion of this era. In probing the period from the dark days when the Ismaili fortresses in Iran fell before the marauding Mongol hordes, to the emergence at Anjudan of the Ismai

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Author

Shafique N. Virani

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781435619913

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Islam, Religion