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• ISLAM IN IRAN xii. MARTYRDOM IN ISLAM

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  Forthcoming online.

• ISLAM IN IRAN xiii. ISLAMIC POLITICAL MOVEMENTS IN 20TH CENTURY IRAN

  Ahmad Ashraf

  New Islamic political movements first emerged in the Near East, the Indian Subcontinent, and Indonesia in the middle of the 19th century.

• ISLAM IN IRAN xiv - xviii

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• ISMAʿILISM

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  a major Shiʿite Muslim community. The Ismaʿilis have had a long and eventful history dating back to the middle of the 2nd/8th century when the Emāmi Shiʿis split into several groups.

• ISMAʿILISM i. ISMAʿILI STUDIES

  Farhad Daftary

  In its modern and scientific form, dating to the 1930s, Ismaʿili studies represents one of the newest fields of Islamic studies.

• ISMAʿILISM ii. ISMAʿILI HISTORIOGRAPHY

  Farhad Daftary

  The general lack of Ismaʿili interest in historiography is well attested by the fact that only a few works of historical nature have been found in the rich corpus of Ismaʿili literature.

• ISMAʿILISM iii. ISMAʿILI HISTORY

  Farhad Daftary

  On the death of Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādeq in 148/765 his followers from among the Imami Shiʿites split into six groups, of which two may be identified as proto-Ismaʿilis or earliest Ismaʿilis.

• ISMAʿILISM iv - x

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• ISMAʿILISM xi. ISMAʿILI JURISPRUDENCE

  Ismail K. Poonawala

  The Ismaʿili system of jurisprudence was founded after the establishment of the Fatimid dynasty in North Africa.

• ISMAʿILISM xii. ISMAʿILI HADITH

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  See HADITH iii.