The Banquet of the Brethren: An Ismaili Guide to Spiritual Hermeneutics, 9780755653911
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The Banquet of the Brethren: An Ismaili Guide to Spiritual Hermeneutics

part 1 a persian critical edition of nasir-i khusraw’s khwan al-ikhwan

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    616 pages

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    11 December 2024

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The Banquet of the Brethren: A Guide to Ismaili Spiritual Hermeneutics

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

The Ismaili missionary and poet, Nasir-i Khusraw (d. after 1070), wrote Khwan al-ikhwan (The Banquet of the Brethren) when he was living in his remote mountain refuge of Yumgan in Badakhshan. A work of philosophical theology, it consists of a sequence of dynamic arguments for divine unicity (tawhid), the au…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780755653911
ISBN-10:0755653912
Series:Ismaili Texts and Translations
Author:Rahim Gholami
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:I.B. Tauris
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:616
Release Date:11 December 2024
Weight:774g
Dimensions:216mm x 138mm x 48mm
About The Author

Rahim Gholami

Rahim Gholami is Research Associate at The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK. He received his PhD in Arab and Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter, UK in 2021.

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