The Early Nizari Ismailis and their Neighbouring Powers, 9780755656677
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Unveiling the medieval Nizari Ismailis: survival, power, and regional conflicts.

The Early Nizari Ismailis and their Neighbouring Powers

politics in the caspian provinces

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    256 pages

  • Release Date

    11 December 2024

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Summary

The Assassin State: Power and Politics in the Early Nizari Ismaili World

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies.

This new history of the Alamut era of the Nizari Ismaili community concentrates on the local politics of the remote mountainous Caspian region. This is where the prominent religious and military leader, Hasan-i Sabbah (1050s-1124) famously founded the medieval Nizari Isma’ili state in 1090 before it collapsed at the hands…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780755656677
ISBN-10:0755656679
Series:Ismaili Heritage
Author:Miklós Sárközy
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:I.B. Tauris
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:11 December 2024
Weight:406g
Dimensions:232mm x 156mm x 14mm
About The Author

Miklós Sárközy

Miklós Sárközy is Assistant Professor in the Institute of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church, Hungary. He is the author of many journal articles and chapters, most recently contributing to Texts, Scribes and Transmission Manuscript Cultures of the Ismaili Communities and Beyond (I.B.Tauris, 2022) and the Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2018). His research interests include Ismaili studies, early Islamic and medieval Iran and Central Asia.

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