The Early Nizari Ismailis and their Neighbouring Powers

Miklós Sárközy is Assistant Professor in the Institute of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church, Hungary. He is the author of many journal articles and chapters, most recently contributing to Texts, Scribes and Transmission Manuscript Cultures of the Ismaili Communities and Beyond (I.B.Tauris, 2022) and the Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2018). His research interests include Ismaili studies, early Islamic and medieval Iran and Central Asia.

Preface
List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1 Introduction: Sources and Studies
Chapter 2 The Political Relations of the Nizari Ismaili State in the Caspian Provinces under Hasan-i Sabbah
Chapter 3 The Development of Local Power in the Caspian region during Saljuq Decline
Chapter 4 Nizari Bawandid Competition for Hegemony, 534–565/1140–1170
Chapter 5 Nizari Bawandid Confrontation in the 6th/12th Century
Chapter 6 The Last Decades of the Nizari Ismaili State
Chapter 7 Ala' al-Din Muhammad III and the End of the Nizari Ismaili State in the Caspian Provinces
Chapter 8 The Economy and Social Structure of the Nizari Ismaili State
Chapter 9 Conclusion

Appendix I Chronology of the Nizari Ismailis in the Alamut period
Appendix II Maps of the Caspian Provinces
Appendix III The Diwan-i Qa'imiyyat, Extracts in Translation
Appendix IV Dynastic Tables

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