Fatimids, Ismaili theology and legitimacy.= Fatimiyan: Kelâm Ismâiliyya wa mashruiyyat. Foreword by Farhad Daftary (Director of the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London).

New Persian Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). Text in Persian with English preface and bilingual title in English and Persian. 452, [5], [1] p. "Overwhelmed by complements and praise Fatimids historiography is dedicated to Imam for his divine right of kingship, the very Fatimids theo-political thought. This doctrine would never have built up unless a serious endeavor took place to draw theo-political principles to establish Fatimids Shiite administration. In fact, the advent of Fatimids as a theocratic administration in Medieval Islam in North Africa from late 3rd century of Hijrah and then its survival for more than two hundred years was based on the politicized Ismaili literature. It was Fatimids Daii theologians who manipulated the primary concepts in Ismaili theology to produce intellectual infrastructures to legitimize Fatimid Imams. The aim of this book is moving from Ismaili theological concepts to legitimacy of Fatimids, which seems to have received little attention in the contemporary Ismaili studies particularly to theo-political works.".