List of Figures List of Contributors Abbreviations Notes on Transliteration Introduction - Dagikhudo Dagiev PART ONE: SUFISM IN HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS 1. The Treatise of Ibrahim Qavghani: A Newly Found Source on the Yasawi Sufi Tradition in Central Asia from the 16th or Early 17th Century - Devin DeWeese 2. The Mystic as Theurgist? A Theme in the Sufism of Najm al-Din Kubra - Toby Mayer 3. A Sufi Revival in Contemporary Khurasan-i Ra?avi: The Transregional Networks of the Naqshbandiyya, the Qadiriyya, and the Chishtiyya - Alexandre Papas PART TWO: SUFI-ISMAILI CULTURAL INTERACTIONS 4. Spiritual Dance of the Badakhshani Ismailis through the Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi - Otambek Mastibekov 5. Mubarak-i Wakhani: A Sufi-Ismaili Musician from Badakhshan - Chorshanbe Goibnazarov 6. 'Sacred Spaces' Turned into Museums: Transformation of Shrine Culture in Tajikistan - Abdulmamad Iloliev PART THREE: STUDYING ISMAILI SOURCES AND RE-INTERPRETING THE DA?WA NARRATIVES 7. Na?ir-i Khusraw and ?asan-i ?abba?: Their Relationship and the Varieties of the Nizari Da?wa in Badakhshan - Daniel Beben 8.

Aspects of the Life and Literature of The Ismaili Da?wa in Khurasan during the Anjudan Revival - Karim Javan 9. Schisms and their Effect on the Ismaili Communities of Badakhshan - Nourmamadcho Nourmamadchoev PART FOUR: PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL DEBATES RELATED TO ISMAILI DOCTRINES 10. Some Notes on Major 10th-Century Ismaili Authors from Khurasan and the East: al-Nasafi, al-Sijistani, and Abu Tammam - Paul Walker 11. The Nizari Reception of Avicennism: Na?ir al-Din al-?usi between Avicennism and Ismailism - Maxime Delpierre 12. Misrepresentations of Nizari Ismaili Doctrines in Qajar Literature - Daryoush Mohammad Poor PART FIVE: PERSIAN AND SUFI TERMINOLOGY AS CULTURAL VEHICLES IN GREATER KHURASAN 13. The Persian Discourse of Na?ir-i Khusraw as a Cultural Code for Badakhshan: Cognitive and Lexical Perspectives - Leyli R. Dodykhudoeva 14. The Study of Sufism and Sufi Literature in the Work of Evgenii Eduardovich Bertel's - Dagikhudo Dagiev.