This thesis is concerned with tracing the rise and spread of that section of the Nizari Isma'ili Da'wa which eventually gave rise to what has come to be known as Satpanth Isma'ilism. The spread in turn involves studying the activities and identifying the various da'is or pirs who came to India and spread the Satpanth doctrine. It is fundamental to the study of movements like Isma'ilism, that the historical context in which they spread be understood clearly and it is only in this way that one cau hope to understand the intellectual assumptions of the movement, in relation to the technique of propagation adopted by the da'wa. Hence the thesis is also concerned, in as far as possible, to set out systematically the historical context within which Satpanth Isma'ilism spread, in order to establish some sort of an identity for it.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.108882 |
| Date | January 1969 |
| Creators | Nanji, Azim. |
| Contributors | Verdery R. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts. (Department of Islamic Studies.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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