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Sacrifice, Circumcision and the Ruler in the Medieval Islamic West: The Ismaili-Fatimid Legacy  \u003ci\u003eMaribel Fierro, \u003c\/i\u003eSpanish National Research Council, Spain  7. Human Action, God's Will: Further Thoughts on the Divine Command (\u003ci\u003eamr\u003c\/i\u003e) in the Teachings of Muhyi al-Din Ibn al-'Arabi (560-638\/1165-1240)  \u003ci\u003eMichael Ebstein, \u003c\/i\u003eThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel    \u003cb\u003ePART III: The Ikhwan al-Safa', Theosophical and philosophical trends\u003c\/b\u003e  8. Onto-cosmology and Hierohistory in the Manuscript Tradition of the \u003ci\u003eRasa'il\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIkhwan al-Safa'\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003ci\u003eCarmela Baffioni, \u003c\/i\u003eThe Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK  9. Extra-Ismaili Sources and a Shift of Paradigm in Nizari Ismailism  \u003ci\u003eDaryoush Mohammad Poor, \u003c\/i\u003eThe Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK  10. Nature according to Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani (d. after 411\/1020–21) and Mulla Sadra (d. 1050\/1640): Ismaili Influence on a Twelver Thinker or Dependence on Common Sources  \u003ci\u003eJanis Esots, \u003c\/i\u003eThe Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK    \u003cb\u003ePART IV: Mystical Trends\u003c\/b\u003e  11. Early Ismailis and Other Muslims: Polemics and Borrowing in \u003ci\u003eKitab al-Kashf\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003ci\u003eMushegh Asatryan, \u003c\/i\u003eThe University of Calgary, Canada  12. The Intellectual Interactions of Yemeni Tayyibism with the Early Shi'i Tradition  \u003ci\u003eDaniel De Smet, \u003c\/i\u003eKU Leuven, Belgium  13. The Nizari Ismaili Theory of the Resurrection (\u003ci\u003eQiyama\u003c\/i\u003e) and Post-Mongol Iranian Messianism  \u003ci\u003eOrkhan Mir-Kasimov, \u003c\/i\u003eThe Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK      \u003cb\u003ePART V: Ismaili-Sufi Relationships in Badakhshan\u003c\/b\u003e  14. 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