Excerpt: This engagement sparked my interest in classical Isma‘ili Muslim philosophy and its main exponents such as the Ikhwan al-Safa, Sayyidna Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani, Sayyidna Abu Hatim al-Razi, Sayyidna Qadi al-Nu’man, Sayyidna Ja‘far ibn Mansur al-Yaman, Sayyidna Ahmad al-Naysaburi, Sayyidna Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani, Sayyidna al-Mu’ayyad fi’l-Din al-Shirazi, Sayyidna Nasir-i Khusraw, Sayyidna Hasan-i Mahmud, Sayyidna Hasan-i Sabbah, Sayyidna Nasir al-Din Tusi, and numerous others whose works continue to be discovered, studied and translated. These individuals were no ordinary scholars: they were members of the Isma‘ili teaching hierarchy known as the Da‘wah (“Calling”) and served as the babs (“gates”), the hujjats (“proofs”), and the da‘is (“callers”) of the Imam of the Time. They served as the Imam’s mouthpiece and it was through their writings and lectures that the esoteric teaching (ta‘lim) of the Imam reached the Jamat.
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