The Paradise of Submission: A Medieval Treatise on Ismaili Thought

by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

Nasir al-Din Tusi, the renowned Shi'i scholar of the 13th century, produced a range of writings in different fields of learning under Ismaili patronage and later under the Mongols. This is a new English translation of his Rawda-yi taslim - the single most important Ismaili text from the Alamut period. Here the Persian and English texts are published together for the first time to produce a work of enormous value to students of Islamic theology and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1860644368
• ISBN13: 9781860644368
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.6" x 8.8"