The Master and the Disciple: An Early Islamic Spiritual Dialogue

The Master and the Disciple: An Early Islamic Spiritual Dialogue

Shiites
Conversion -- Islam

This key source for pre-Fatimid Ismaili history includes a fully annotated translation and Arabic critical edition of one of the earliest surviving Ismaili Shi'i writings, Kitåb al-'Ålim wa'l-ghulåm by the Yemeni author Ja'far Ibn Manßúr al-Yaman. The book is unique because it provides the most elaborate example available of the narrated dramatic dialogues form in Arabic literature. It also vividly illustrates the processes by which early esoteric Shi'i ideas and institutions eventually contributed to the evolution of more familiar forms of Sufism in the Islamic West.

Jafar b. Mansur al-Yaman

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies

James W. Morris

Series: Ismaili texts and translations series (Institute of Ismaili Studies); 3.

1. General presentation. 2. The historical significance of the Kitāb al-ʻĀlim wa'l-ghulām. The literary form of the text. Sufism and esoteric Shiʻism. Early Ismailism and the pre-Fatimid daʻwa. Later Mustaʻli Ismailism. 3. Jaʻfar b. Manṣūr al-Yaman and his writings. 4. Reading a Qurʼanic dialogue. 5. Manuscripts and edition. -- The Book of the master and the disciple (English translation). -- Kitāb al-ʻĀlim wa'l-ghulām (Arabic text).

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