Thursday, April 19, 2012 – 3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA
The recovery of Fatimid-era works produced by the Ismaili da’wa substantially improved our understanding of this Shiite dynasty and its history. However, much, perhaps most, of the material we now have for this purpose was all but inaccessible until fairly recently. Previously locked away in sectarian libraries in the Yemen and India, many important books and treatise are now emerging from obscurity and entering the main stream of modern scholarship. Thanks to those who have located, edited and translated this legacy over the preceding three or four decades, we can at last begin to match the literature of the Ismailis with the policies and pronouncements of the government they created and supported.
Cost: Free and Open to the Public
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