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Esotericism and Cosmology

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Izah wa al Tabyin The Epistle of Elucidation and Clarification.pdf

  • Description: A Tayyibi esoteric treatise dealing with the allegorical interpretation of the story of Adam and the Fall. It explains the outward Qur’anic account through the Tayyibi doctrine of spiritual realities and cosmic hierarchy.

Kanz al Walad.pdf

  • Description: A major work of Tayyibi Ismaili theology covering cosmology, creation, the spiritual hierarchy, the nature of knowledge, the human soul, and the return of souls to their spiritual origin. Usually only read by The Dai and His Successor.
  • Author: Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥāmidī — 2nd Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq
  • Time Period: 6th century AH / 12th century CE

Mabda Maad 1 The Origin and Return.pdf

  • Description: A Tayyibi exposition of the origin (mabdaʾ) and return (maʿād), explaining creation, the spiritual hierarchy, the soul, and humanity’s ultimate spiritual return.
  • Author: al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd — 8th Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq
  • Time Period: 7th century AH / 13th century CE

Mabda Maad 2 The Epistle on the Origin and the Return.pdf

  • Description: Alternate translation/version of the same work as Mabdaʾ wa’l-Maʿād 1. It presents Tayyibi teachings concerning the origin of existence and the return of the soul.
  • Author: al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd — 8th Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq
  • Time Period: 7th century AH / 13th century CE

Majmuat Tarbiyah - English.pdf

  • Description: A collection of Tayyibi teachings concerning spiritual and intellectual cultivation (tarbiyah), including esoteric instruction and taʾwīl. The work preserves teachings from the early Tayyibi period and provides instruction in the religious and esoteric sciences.
  • Author: Muḥammad bin Ṭāhir — Mukhaṣṣir and Maʾdhūn of the 2nd and 3rd Dāʿīs
  • Time Period: 6th century AH / 12th century CE

Majmuat Tarbiyah 2 - English.pdf

  • Description: A second part of Majmūʿat Tarbiyah. A collection of early Tayyibi teachings on spiritual cultivation, esoteric knowledge, and taʾwīl.
  • Author: Muḥammad bin Ṭāhir — Mukhaṣṣir and Maʾdhūn of the 2nd and 3rd Dāʿīs
  • Time Period: 6th century AH / 12th century CE

Mufida The Useful Treatise.pdf

    • Description: A commentary on Ibn Sīnā’s Qaṣīdat al-Nafs (Poem on the Soul), interpreting the philosophical poem according to Tayyibi Ismaili teachings concerning the soul, intellect, knowledge, and spiritual reality.
  • Author: ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd — 5th Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq
  • Time Period: 7th century AH / 13th century CE

Simtul Haqaiq A Garland of Esoteric Realities.pdf

  • Description: A concise exposition of fundamental Tayyibi Ismaili doctrines and esoteric realities, presenting aspects of the faith through the Tayyibi understanding of ḥaqīqah and taʾwīl.

Ziyaul Huloom 1 The Light of Inspired Visions.pdf

  • Description: A Tayyibi work dealing with esoteric knowledge and spiritual realities, explaining aspects of the Tayyibi cosmological and religious hierarchy.
  • Author: ʿAlī ibn Ḥanẓalah al-Wadāʿī — 6th Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq
  • Time Period: 7th century AH / 13th century CE

Ziyaul Huloom 2 The Illumination of the Knowledge.pdf

  • Description: Alternate translation/version of Ḍiyāʾ al-Ḥulūm. It expounds Tayyibi teachings concerning knowledge, spiritual realities, and the hierarchy of existence.
  • Author: ʿAlī ibn Ḥanẓalah al-Wadāʿī — 6th Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq
  • Time Period: 7th century AH / 13th century CE

Ziyaul Huloom 3 The Light of Inspired Visions.pdf

  • Description: Alternate translation/version of Ḍiyāʾ al-Ḥulūm. It presents the same underlying Tayyibi work through a different English rendering.
  • Author: ʿAlī ibn Ḥanẓalah al-Wadāʿī — 6th Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq
  • Time Period: 7th century AH / 13th century CE

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