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Surviving the Mongols : Nizari Quhistani and the Continuity of the Ismaili Tradition in Persia - Nadia Eboo Jamal

Surviving the Mongols

Nizari Quhistani and the Continuity of the Ismaili Tradition in Persia

By: Nadia Eboo Jamal

Hardcover | 26 July 2002 | Edition Number 1

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02 This lively study examines the poetic writings of Nizårí Quhiståní, one of the few Ismaili authors who survived the Mongol invasion of Iran in the 13th century. The invasion put an end to Ismaili political aspirations and independence until the 16th-century Safavid dynasty. The evidence of Nizårí's writings demonstrates that during the period of the invasion the Ismaili community did not lose their internal organizational structure, and that they continued to operate in different forms through the Mongol period in Persian history.
This lively study examines the poetic writings of Nizårí Quhiståní, one of the few Ismaili authors who survived the Mongol invasion of Iran in the 13th century. The invasion put an end to Ismaili political aspirations and independence until the 16th-century Safavid dynasty. The evidence of Nizårí's writings demonstrates that during the period of the invasion the Ismaili community did not lose their internal organizational structure, and that they continued to operate in different forms through the Mongol period in Persian history.
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"...sheds a welcome light on the Il-Khanate in general, and the Persian Ismailis and Nizari Quhistani (1247-1320) in particular." -George Lane, Cambridge School of Oriental & African Studies Journal

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