Command and Creation: A Shi‘i Cosmological Treatise - A Persian edition and English translation of Muhammad al-Shahrastani's Majlis-i maktub - Bog af
I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili StudiesAmong the considerable oeuvre of Muhammad al-Shahrastani (1086-1153), the prominent Persian theologian and heresiographer, the Majlis-i maktub ('The Transcribed Sermon') is his only known work in Persian. First delivered as a sermon in Khwarazm in Central Asia, this treatise invokes the theme of creation and command, providing an esoteric cosmological narrative where faith, revelation, prophecy and the spiritual authority of the Household..
Command and Creation: A Shi‘i Cosmological Treatise - A Persian edition and English translation of Muhammad al-Shahrastani's Majlis-i maktub - Dr. Dar
I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili StudiesAmong the considerable oeuvre of Muhammad al-Shahrastani (1086-1153), the prominent Persian theologian and heresiographer, the Majlis-i maktub ('The Transcribed Sermon') is his only known work in Persian. First delivered as a sermon in Khwarazm in Central Asia, this treatise invokes the theme of creation and command, providing an esoteric cosmological narrative where faith, revelation, prophecy and the spiritual authority of the Household..