TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walker,Paul Ernest
AU  - Abū Yaʻqūb al-Sijistānī,Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad
TI  - The Wellsprings of wisdom: a study of Abū Yaʻqūb al-Sijistānī's Kitāb al-Yanābīʻ : including a complete English translation with commentary and notes on the Arabic text 
SN  - 0585129827
AV  - BP195.I8 W354 1994eb
U1  - 297/.20422 20
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Salt Lake City
PB  - University of Utah Press
KW  - Abū Yaʻqūb al-Sijistānī, Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad,
KW  - Abū-Yaʻqūb as-Siǧistānī, Isḥaq Ibn-Aḥmad.
KW  - Yanābīʻ (Abū Yaʻqūb al-Sijistānī, Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad)
KW  - fast
KW  - Ismailites
KW  - Doctrines
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - History
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Islam
KW  - Theology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Early works
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199) and index; The foundations of an epistemology -- Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani. Ismaili literature. The importance of al-Sijistani. His life and works. Some critical points in his teachings -- The book of wellsprings. Organization and special features. Background and sources. Dating the wellsprings. Authenticity. Title. Method and audience. State of the Arabic text. Translating the wellsprings. Notes and commentary. The diagrams. The book of wellsprings: translation; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - The rapid success of the early Isma'ili dacwa, or religio-political mission, culminated in the establishment of the Fatimid caliphate in the year 909. Modern scholarship in Ismaʹili studies has revealed that the Ismaʹilis were also engaged from early on in their eventful history in diverse intellectual activities, some of which were unique to the Ismaʹili community. In particular, while the early Fatimid caliph-imams were still preoccupied with consolidating the power base of their dawla in North Africa, some of the Ismaʹili daʹis of the Iranian lands elaborated a distinctive Isma'ili tradition of learning, amalgamating in a highly original fashion their Ismaʹili interpretation of Islam with a type of Neoplatonic philosophy then current in Khurasan and some other eastern regions of the Muslim world. -- from http://www.jstor.org (Nov. 16, 2013)
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