Islamic Traditions in Greater Khurasan

Dagikhudo Dagiev is Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, UK. He has previously published Regime Transition in Central Asia (2014) and Central Asian Ismailis (2022). He co-edited a volume with Carole Faucher, Identity, History and Trans-Nationality in Central Asia (2019) and edited the volume, The History of the Tajiks: Iranic Peoples of Greater Khurasan (forthcoming, 2026). His research interests include Central Asian Ismailis, with a focus on the historical and cultural context of Khurasan, as well as the history of Islam and the social and political development of the entire region.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsAbbreviationsNotes on TransliterationIntroduction – Dagikhudo DagievPART 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 DeWeese2. The Mystic as Theurgist? A Theme in the Sufism of Najm al-Din Kubra – Toby Mayer3. A Sufi Revival in Contemporary Khurasan-i Ra?avi: The Transregional Networks of the Naqshbandiyya, the Qadiriyya, and the Chishtiyya – Alexandre PapasPART TWO: SUFI–ISMAILI CULTURAL INTERACTIONS4. Spiritual Dance of the Badakhshani Ismailis through the Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi – Otambek Mastibekov5. Mubarak-i Wakhani: A Sufi–Ismaili Musician from Badakhshan – Chorshanbe Goibnazarov6. ‘Sacred Spaces’ Turned into Museums: Transformation of Shrine Culture in Tajikistan – Abdulmamad IlolievPART 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 Beben8. Aspects of the Life and Literature of The Ismaili Da?wa in Khurasan during the Anjudan Revival – Karim Javan9. Schisms and their Effect on the Ismaili Communities of Badakhshan – Nourmamadcho NourmamadchoevPART 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 Walker11. The Nizari Reception of Avicennism: Na?ir al-Din al-?usi between Avicennism and Ismailism – Maxime Delpierre12. Misrepresentations of Nizari Ismaili Doctrines in Qajar Literature – Daryoush Mohammad PoorPART FIVE: PERSIAN AND SUFI TERMINOLOGY AS CULTURAL VEHICLES IN GREATER KHURASAN13. The Persian Discourse of Na?ir-i Khusraw as a Cultural Code for Badakhshan: Cognitive and Lexical Perspectives – Leyli R. Dodykhudoeva14. The Study of Sufism and Sufi Literature in the Work of Evgenii Eduardovich Bertel's – Dagikhudo Dagiev