Texts, Scribes and Transmission

Wafi Momin is Head of the Ismaili Special Collections Unit at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK, where he teaches courses on developments in modern and contemporary Muslim Societies and aspects of Islam in South Asia. He received his doctorate in South Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago, US, and has written articles on Ismaili tradition in South Asia and its interaction with Indic religious movements.

• Acknowledgements Note on ContributorsTransliteration, Dates, and AbbreviationsIntroduction, Wafi A. Momin, Institute of Ismaili Studies, UKSection I: THE SHAPING OF A NEW FIELD1. Ismaili Manuscripts and Modern Scholarship in Ismaili Studies, Farhad Daftary, Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK2. Husain Hamdani, Paul Kraus, and a Suitcase Full of Manuscripts, François de Blois, University of Cambridge, UKSection II: RASA'IL IKHWAN AL-SAFA', KITAB AL-ZINA, AND THEIR MANUSCRIPT TRADITION3. The Ikhwan al-Safa’s Epistles on Logic in Some Manuscripts of the IIS Arabic Collection, Carmela Baffioni, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK4. The Missing Link? MS 1040: An Important Copy of the Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa’ , Omar Ali-de-Unzaga, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK5. The Manuscript Copies of Abu Hatim al-Razi’s Kitab al-Zina at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, Cornelius Berthold, University of Hamburg, GermanySection III: EXPLORING TWO EARLY TAYYIBI WORKS AND THEIR TRANSMISSION6. The Majmu’ al-tarbiya between Text and Paratext: Exploring the Social History of a Community’s Reading Culture, Delia Cortese, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK7. Textual, Orthographic Variations and Scribes’ Annotations: A Possible Tool for the Transmission Analysis of the Text?, Monica Scotti, University of Naples "L'Orientale", ItalySection IV: REVISITING NIZARI HISTORY OF ALAMUT TIMES8. Alamut and Badakshan: Newly identified Sargudhasht-i Sayyidna Manuscripts and their Background, Miklos Sarközy, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK9. 'Ahd-i Sayyidna, a Newly Discovered Treatise on the Consolidation of the Nizari Da'wa in Alamut, Karim Javan, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK10. The Discovery, Description and Publication of the Manuscripts of Two Major Niazari Ismaili Texts from the Alamut Period: The Haft Bab and the Diwan-i Qa’imiyyat of Hasan-i Mahmud-i Katib, S. J. Badakhchani, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UKSECTION V: COMMUNAL SCRIPT, SCRIBAL ELITE, AND SATPANTH MANUSCRIPT CULTURE11. Khwajah Sindhi (Khojki): Its Name, Manuscripts and Origin, Shafique N. Virani, University of Toronto, Canada12. A Forgotten Voice: The Agency of Scribal and Literate Elite and the Satpanth Manuscript Culture, Wafi A. Momin, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UKSETION VI: IDENTITY, CULTURAL INTERACTIONS, AND ESOTERIC INTERPREATION AMONG CENTRAL ASIAN ISMAILI COMMUNITIES13. Ismaili-Sufi Relationships in the Light of the Ni’mat Allahi Manuscripts in the Holdings of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK14. Poems of Allegiance: Shah Diya-i-i Shughnani’s Salam-nama, Nourmamadcho Nourmamadchoev, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK15. The Sahifat al-nazirin: Reflections on Authorship and Confessional Identity in a 15th-Century Central Asian Text, Daniel Beben, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK16. The Seven Pillars of the Shari’a and the Question of Authority in the Central Asian Ismaili Manuscripts: An Ismaili Esoteric Discourse, Yahia Baiza, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UKSECTION VII: APPROACHING TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION THROUGH QUR’ANIC MANUSCRIPTS AND HOLOGRAPH AUTOGRAPH COPIES17. Writing the Qur’an between the Lines: Preliminary Remarks on Marginalia in the Qur’an Manuscripts held by The Institute of Ismaili Studies, Asma Hilali, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK18. The Making of a Holograph: Authorial Arabic Manuscripts in the Special Collections of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, Walid Ghali, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UKList of illustrations Index

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