In this original study, Elizabeth R. Alexandrin examines the complex relationships that can be inscribed between medieval Ismā’īlī thought as an intellectual tradition with a devotional practice of reliance on the imām, and as a politico-esoteric system that redefined governance during the Fāṭimid caliphate in the eleventh century.
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