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Ismaili and Fatimid Studies in Honor of Paul E. Walker

Ismaili and Fatimid Studies in Honor of Paul E. Walker 100 Book Reviews BRUCE D. CRAIG (Ed.), 2010 Chicago, Ill.: The Middle East Documentation Center, University of Chicago 214 pp., ill. US$59.95 (hardback) ISBN 9780970819963 This festschrift for Paul Walker – who has considerably enhanced our under- standing of history, philosophy and the intellectual milieu of the Isma¯ ʿ¯ ıl¯ ısand the Fa¯timids – contains ten articles plus a short biography of the honoree and a list of his publications. Two of the articles (Daftary and Madelung) are on the Isma¯ ʿ¯ ıl¯ ıs, four (Bauden, Fierro, Saleh and Hamdani) on the Fa¯timids, and four (Poonawala, De Smet, Pomerantz and King) on various individuals or their works. Farhad Daftary surveys the hidden ima¯ms and Mahd¯ ıs showing how schism crept into the Isma¯ ʿ¯ ıl¯ ı daʿwa, causing their split into groups, each claiming the legitimate ima¯mate for itself. Using the occultation (ghayba) as the instrument for legitimiza- tion of upward heritage, even some non-ʿAlid descendants have positioned them- selves in the line of succession to the ima¯mate. Subsequently, some of them, such as the Druze who claimed the divinity of al-Ha¯kim (r. 386–412/996–1021), or the Atba¯ ʿ-i Malak Vak¯ ıl who gave up praying and fasting along with http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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© 2014 Muhammad al-Faruque
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1473-348X
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10.1080/09503110.2014.878436
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100 Book Reviews BRUCE D. CRAIG (Ed.), 2010 Chicago, Ill.: The Middle East Documentation Center, University of Chicago 214 pp., ill. US$59.95 (hardback) ISBN 9780970819963 This festschrift for Paul Walker – who has considerably enhanced our under- standing of history, philosophy and the intellectual milieu of the Isma¯ ʿ¯ ıl¯ ısand the Fa¯timids – contains ten articles plus a short biography of the honoree and a list of his publications. Two of the articles (Daftary and Madelung) are on the Isma¯ ʿ¯ ıl¯ ıs, four (Bauden, Fierro, Saleh and Hamdani) on the Fa¯timids, and four (Poonawala, De Smet, Pomerantz and King) on various individuals or their works. Farhad Daftary surveys the hidden ima¯ms and Mahd¯ ıs showing how schism crept into the Isma¯ ʿ¯ ıl¯ ı daʿwa, causing their split into groups, each claiming the legitimate ima¯mate for itself. Using the occultation (ghayba) as the instrument for legitimiza- tion of upward heritage, even some non-ʿAlid descendants have positioned them- selves in the line of succession to the ima¯mate. Subsequently, some of them, such as the Druze who claimed the divinity of al-Ha¯kim (r. 386–412/996–1021), or the Atba¯ ʿ-i Malak Vak¯ ıl who gave up praying and fasting along with

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