Islamic Traditions in Greater Khurasan

Dagikhudo Dagiev is Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, UK. He has previously published Regime Transition in Central Asia (2014) and Central Asian Ismailis (2022). He co-edited a volume with Carole Faucher, Identity, History and Trans-Nationality in Central Asia (2019) and edited the volume, The History of the Tajiks: Iranic Peoples of Greater Khurasan (forthcoming, 2026). His research interests include Central Asian Ismailis, with a focus on the historical and cultural context of Khurasan, as well as the history of Islam and the social and political development of the entire region.

• IntroductionPART ONE: SUFISM IN THE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT1. Devin DeWeese — The Treatise of Ibrahim Qavghani: A Newly Found Source on the Yasawi Sufi Tradition from the 16th or Early 17th Century2. Toby Mayer — The Mystic as Theurgist? A Theme in the Sufism of Najm al-Din Kubra3. Alexander Papas — A Sufi Revival in Contemporary Khurasan-i Radavi: The Transregional Networks of the Naqshbandiyya, the Qadiriyya, and the ChishtiyyaPART TWO: SUFI–ISMAILI CULTURAL INTERACTIONS4. Otambek Mastibekov — Spiritual Dance of the Badakhshani Ismailis through Rumi’s Poetry5. Chorshanbe Goibnazarov — Mubarak-i Wakhani is a Sufi-Ismaili Musician from Badakhshan6. Abdulmamad Iloliev — ‘Sacred Spaces’ Turned into Museums: Transformation of Shrine Culture in TajikistanPART THREE: STUDY OF THE ISMAILI SOURCES AND RE-INTERPRETATION OF THE [DA’WA] NARRATIVES 7. Daniel Beben — Nasir-i Khusraw and Hasan-i Sabbah: Their Relationship and the Varieties of the Nizari Da’wa in Badakhshan8. Karim Javan — Ismaili Da’wa in Khurasan during the Anjudan Revival9. Nourmamadcho Nourmamadchoev — Schisms and their Effect on the Ismaili Communities of Badakhshan PART FOUR: PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL DEBATES RELATED TO ISMAILI DOCTRINES 10. Paul Walker — Some Notes on Major 10th Century Ismailli Authors from Khurasan and the East: al-Nasafi, al-Sijistani, and Abu Tammam11. Maxime Delpierre — The Nizari Reception of Avicennism: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi between Avicennism and Ismailism12. Daryoush Mohammad Poor — Misrepresentations of Nizari Ismaili Doctrines in Qajar LiteraturePART FIVE: THE PERSIAN AND SUFI TERMINOLOGY AS CULTURAL VEHICLES IN THE KHURASANIAN LAND13. Leyli Dodykhudoeva — The Persian Discourse of Nasir-i Khusraw as a Cultural Code for Badakhshn: Cognitive and Lexical Perspective14. Dagikhudo Dagiev — The Study of Sufism and Sufi Literature in Bertel's's Work