(ed.), Medieval Ismaʿili History and Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 117–43; Sumaiya A. Hamdani, Between Revolution and State: The Path to Fatimid Statehood. Qadi al-Nuʿman and the Construction of Fatimid Legitimacy (London: I. B. Tauris, 2006); Agostino Cilardo, The Early History of Ismaili Jurisprudence: Law under the Fatimids. A critical edition of the Arabic text and English translation of al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān’s Minhāj al-farāʾiḍ (London: I. B. Tauris, 2012), 5–42.
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Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf ibn Taghrībirdī, al-Nujūm al-zāhirah fī mulūk Miṣr wa-l-Qāhirah, 16 vols. (Cairo: al-Hayʾah al-Miṣriyyah al-ʿĀmmah, 1963–71), 4:106–7.
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Cilardo, The Early History of Ismaili Jurisprudence, 18.
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It is also possible that al-Nuʿmān’s father was dissimulating, using adherence to the Ḥanafī legal madhhab as a cover for secret adherence to Ismaʿili Shiʿism.
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Hamdani, Between Revolution and State, 46–48; Ismail K. Poonawala, “Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān and Ismaʿili Jurisprudence,” in Farhad Daftary (ed.), Medieval Ismaʿili History and Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 119–20.
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Madelung, “The Sources of Ismāʿīlī Law”, 29–40.
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Kitāb al-Īḍāḥ, ed. Muḥammad Kāẓim Raḥmatī (Beirut: Muʾassasat al-Aʿlamī, 2007).
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Kitāb al-Iqtiṣār, ed. Muḥammad Wāḥid Mīrzā (Damascus: Institut Français de Damas, 1957); ed. Tāmir ʿĀrif (Beirut: Dār al-Aḍwāʾ, 1996).
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Al-Urjūzah al-mukhtārah, ed. Ismail Kurbanhusayn Poonawala (Montreal: Islamic Studies Institute, McGill University, 1970).
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Cilardo, The Early History of Ismaili Jurisprudence, 29–33.
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Introduction to al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān, The Pillars of Islam (Daʿāʾim al-Islam): Vol. I. Acts of Devotion and Religious Observances, trans. A. A. A. Fyzee and Ismail Poonawala (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002), v. Hamdani reports that the dates 347/958 and 349/960 have been suggested. Hamdani, Between Revolution and State, 64.
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Poonawalla, “Ismāʿīlī Jurisprudence” , 123–24.
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al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān, The Epistle of the Eloquent Clarification Concerning the Refutation of Ibn Qutaybah, ed. Avraham Hakim (Leiden: Brill, 2012).
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Hakim, Introduction to Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān, The Epistle of Eloquent Clarification, 4–6.
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Al-Shāfiʿī’s Risālah has been translated in the Library of Arabic Literature as The Epistle on Legal Theory, ed. and trans. Joseph E. Lowry (New York: NYU Press, 2013).
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Poonawala, “Ismāʿīlī Jurisprudence”, 127.
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The Pillars of Islam (Daʿāʾim al-Islam): Vol. I. Acts of Devotion and Religious Observances, Vol. II. Laws Pertaining to Human Intercourse, by al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān, trans. A. A. A. Fyzee, completely revised and annotated by Ismail Poonawala (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002–4).
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Ibn Shahrāshūb, Maʿālim al-ʿulamāʾ, 161.
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Poonawala, “al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān’s Works and the Sources” , 114–15.
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Muḥsin al-Amīn, Aʿyān al-shīʿah, 10 vols. (Beirut: Dār al-Taʿāruf, 1984), 10:223–24.
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Ismail K. Poonawala, “A Reconsideration of al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān’s Madhhab,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 37 (1974): 572–79, esp. 572; Madelung, Review of Sumaiya A. Hamdani, Between Revolution and State, in Journal of Islamic Studies 18 (2007): 421–22.
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A. A. A. Fyzee, “Shiʿi Legal Theories”, in Majid Khadduri and Herbert J. Liebesny, Law in the Middle East, Vol. 1 (Washington, D.C.: Middle East Institute, 1955), 124–27.
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A. A. A. Fyzee, Compendium of Fatimid Law (Simla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1969), xxvii-xxx.
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Shamoon T. Lokhandwalla, The Origins of Ismaili Law, D. Phil. thesis, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, 1951.
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Hamdani, Between Revolution and State, 84–86.
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Cilardo, The Early History of Ismaili Jurisprudence, 22–24.
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Hamdani, Between Revolution and State, 85.
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