<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Walker, Paul.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani: Intellectual Missionary</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bibliography</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English,</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In Press</style></year></dates><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SERIES: Encycl. Iranica I, fasc. 4 ; PAGES:  pp. 396-398</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DETAILS:  &quot;Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani&quot;: Intellectual Missionary. s.v., Encycl. Iranica I, fasc. 4, pp. 396-398.</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Walker, Paul.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aga Khan - Ismaili - Imam - Shi'a</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bibliography</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English,</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In Press</style></year></dates><edition><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Encycl. of Asian History.</style></edition><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Charles Scribner and Sons, forthcoming</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">New York</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DETAILS:  &quot;Aga Khan,&quot;&quot;Ismaili,&quot;&quot;Imam,&quot;and &quot;Shi'a,&quot; s.v., Encycl. of Asian History. New York: Charles Scribner and Sons, forthcoming.</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Walker, Paul.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Universal Soul and the Particular Soul in Ismaili Neoplatonism.</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bibliography</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English,</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In Press</style></year></dates><edition><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Neoplatonism and Islamic Thought,</style></edition><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Forthcoming ; DETAILS:  &quot;The Universal Soul and the Particular Soul in Ismaili Neoplatonism.&quot; In Neoplatonism and Islamic Thought, ed. Parviz Morewedge. Forthcoming.</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>32</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Walker, Paul.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Abu Ya'cub al Sijistani and the Development of Isma'ili Neoplatonism.</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bibliography</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English,</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1993</style></year></dates><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">219p</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">0-521-44129-3</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Ismailis, among whom are the followers of the Aga Khan, rose to prominence during the 4th Islamic/10th Christian century and developed a remarkably successful intellectual program to sustain and support their political activities. Their most important intellectual theoretician was Abu Ya`qub al-Sijistani and Dr. Paul Walker presents the first book-length study of his ideas and teachings. Using published and manuscript writings, the author analyzes al-Sijistani's Neoplatonic interpretations of science and religion.

Contents: PART 1: AL-SIJISTANI'S HERITAGE; 1: The Ismaili message and its philosophers; 2: Religious and philosophical resources; 3: Ismaili predecessors; PART 2:AL-SIJISTANI'S UNIVERSE; 4. Introduction: categories and terms; 5. A theology of unqualified transcendence; 6. Creation as command; 7. Intellect, the sum of existent being; 8. Descending and ascending soul; 9. Nature and the physical realm; 10. A cosmic anthropology; 11. Prophecy, the deputy of intellect; 12. Interpretation and its institution; 13. Salvation and the womb of history; EPILOGUE: THE USE AND CONTROL OF REASON 

Walker, Paul E. 
Early Philosophical Shiism
The Ismaili Neoplatonism of Abu Ya`qub al-Sijistani
</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DETAILS:  &quot;Abu Ya'cub al Sijistani and the Development of Isma'ili Neoplatonism.&quot; Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1974. 226 pp.

Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
Subject: near, middle and far east
1993        6 X 9        219 pp.
Hardback        0-521-44129-3        $54.95 </style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Walker, Paul.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Eternal Cosmos and Womb of History: Time in Early Ismaili Thought</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bibliography</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English,</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1978</style></year></dates><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SERIES: I.J.M.E.S. ; VOLUME: IX ; PAGES:  355-366</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DETAILS:  &quot;Eternal Cosmos and Womb of History: Time in Early Ismaili Thought,&quot; I.J.M.E.S. IX (1978): 355-366.</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Walker, Paul.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The `Crusade' of John Tzimisces in the Light of New Arabic Evidence</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bibliography</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English,</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1977</style></year></dates><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SERIES: Byzantion ; VOLUME: XLII ; PAGES:  301-327</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">On Fatimids ; DETAILS:  &quot;The `Crusade' of John Tzimisces in the Light of New Arabic Evidence,&quot; Byzantion, XLII (1977): 301-327. On Fatimids.</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Walker, Paul.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cosmic Hierarchies in Early Ismaili Thought: the View on Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bibliography</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English,</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1976</style></year></dates><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SERIES: M.W. LXVI ; PAGES:  14-28</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DETAILS:  &quot;Cosmic Hierarchies in Early Ismaili Thought: the View on Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani,&quot; M.W. LXVI (1976): 14-28.</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Walker, Paul.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">An Early Ismaili Interpretation of Man History and Salvation</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bibliography</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English,</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1975</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ohio Journal of Religious Studies</style></publisher><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SERIES: III ; VOLUME:  no. 2 ; PAGES:  29-35</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DETAILS:  &quot;An Early Ismaili Interpretation of Man, History and Salvation,&quot; Ohio Journal of Religious Studies III, no. 2 (1975): 29-35.</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Walker, Paul.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Ismaili Answer to the Problems of Worshipping the Unknowable Neoplatonic God</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bibliography</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English,</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1974</style></year></dates><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SERIES: A.J.A.S. ; VOLUME: II ; PAGES:  pp.7-21</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DETAILS:  &quot;The Ismaili Answer to the Problems of Worshipping the Unknowable Neoplatonic God,&quot; A.J.A.S. II (1974): 7-21.</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Walker, Paul.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Ismaili Vocabulary of Creation</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bibliography</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English,</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1974</style></year></dates><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SERIES: S.I. ; VOLUME: XL</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Study of the vocabulary used by Abu Ya'qub al Sijistani in Kitab al-Yanabi and al-Maqalid. ; DETAILS:  &quot;The Ismaili Vocabulary of Creation,&quot; S.I. XL (1974): 75-85. Study of the vocabulary used by Abu Ya'qub al Sijistani in Kitab al-Yanabi and al-Maqalid.</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Walker, Paul.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A Byzantine Victory over the Fatimids at Alexandretta (971)</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bibliography</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English,</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1972</style></year></dates><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DETAILS:  &quot;A Byzantine Victory over the Fatimids at Alexandretta (971),&quot; Byzantion XLII (1972): 431-440.</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>32</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Walker, Paul.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Abu Ya'qub as-Sijistani. The Opening of the Persian Mission and the Beginning of Isma`ili Dogma.</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bibliography</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English,</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1966</style></year></dates><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DETAILS:  &quot;Abu Ya'qub as-Sijistani. The Opening of the Persian Mission and the Beginning of Isma`ili Dogma.&quot; M.A. thesis, American University in Cairo, 1966.</style></notes></record></records></xml>