Command and Creation: A Shi‘i Cosmological Treatise

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies

Among the considerable oeuvre of Muhammad al-Shahrastani (1086–1153), the prominent Persian theologian and heresiographer, the Majlis-i maktub (''The Transcribed Sermon'') is his only known work in Persian. First delivered as a sermon in Khwarazm in Central Asia, this treatise invokes the theme of creation and command, providing an es...