Orkhan Mir-Kasimov is Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. He has published widely on Islamic mysticism and messianism, and particularly on aspects of Hurufi thought. Most recently, he edited the volume Unity in Diversity: Mysticism, Messianism and the Construction of Religious Authority in Islam (2013). He has lectured at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and The National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations in Paris.

• Note on Transliteration and ConventionsPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I : Cosmogony and Cosmology: The Language of the CreationPart II : Prophetology: The Descent of the Word and its Return to the OriginPart III : Soteriology and EschatologyConclusion: The Jawidan-nama in the Context of Islamic ThoughtGlossary of Key Technical TermsInventory I : Hadiths and SayingsInventory II : Biblical CitationsIndex of Quranic Quotations Persian Text of the Citations BibliographyGeneral Index

Orkhan Mir-Kasimov is Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. He has published widely on Islamic mysticism and messianism, and particularly on aspects of Hurufi thought. Most recently, he edited the volume Unity in Diversity: Mysticism, Messianism and the Construction of Religious Authority in Islam (2013). He has lectured at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and The National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations in Paris.

• Note on Transliteration and ConventionsPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I : Cosmogony and Cosmology: The Language of the CreationPart II : Prophetology: The Descent of the Word and its Return to the OriginPart III : Soteriology and EschatologyConclusion: The Jawidan-nama in the Context of Islamic ThoughtGlossary of Key Technical TermsInventory I : Hadiths and SayingsInventory II : Biblical CitationsIndex of Quranic Quotations Persian Text of the Citations BibliographyGeneral Index

Orkhan Mir-Kasimov is Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. He has published widely on Islamic mysticism and messianism, and particularly on aspects of Hurufi thought. Most recently, he edited the volume Unity in Diversity: Mysticism, Messianism and the Construction of Religious Authority in Islam (2013). He has lectured at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and The National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations in Paris.

• Note on Transliteration and ConventionsPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I : Cosmogony and Cosmology: The Language of the CreationPart II : Prophetology: The Descent of the Word and its Return to the OriginPart III : Soteriology and EschatologyConclusion: The Jawidan-nama in the Context of Islamic ThoughtGlossary of Key Technical TermsInventory I : Hadiths and SayingsInventory II : Biblical CitationsIndex of Quranic Quotations Persian Text of the Citations BibliographyGeneral Index