Fifty Years in the East : The Memoirs of Wladimir Ivanow, edited with annotations by Farhad Daftary

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Fifty Years in the East : The Memoirs of Wladimir Ivanow, edited with annotations by Farhad Daftary

Fifty Years in the East : The Memoirs of Wladimir Ivanow, edited with annotations by Farhad Daftary

Authors : Amanda PROPST

Pages : 140-142

Doi:10.12730/13091719.2015.61.129

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Publication Date : 2016-02-20

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :First paragraph: Even when considering a sub-discipline that traces its substantive origin to a time as recent as the 20th century, it is easy for the scholar and student – much less the casual reader – to take Ismāʿīlism as an outgrowth of disembodied, medieval manuscripts. With indispensable texts such as Farhad Daftary’s on Ismāʿīlī history and doctrines, the reader is confronted with reliable, well-sourced information; less apparent is the considerable physical, political, and interpersonal effort spent in collecting manuscripts, the contemporary ethnographic significance of investigating a marginalized Shīʿī sect further split into smaller groups, and the role of broader political forces in the focused life of a scholar. Daftary’s introduction to Wladimir Ivanow’s memoirs Fifty Years in the East lays out the seminal role in the development of Ismāʿīlī studies that Ivanow played, but Ivanow’s memoir itself should not be relegated to another title in the Ismāʿīlī bibliography.
Keywords : Wladimir Ivanow, Ismāʿīlī, Middle East

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