Al-Mu'ayyad fi'l-DÌn al-ShÌrzÌ (d. 470/1087) was an outstanding, multi-talented Fatimid scholar of Persian origin. He excelled as a missionary-agent, statesman, poet, preacher and theologian. Based on his autobiography, this work provides an insight into the remarkable life and achievements of al-Mu'ayyad through important stages of his career, describing his daring attempt to win over the Buyids of western Iran to the Fatimid cause, his dangerous flight to Cairo and finally his expedition to Syria and Iraq to build up an alliance of local rulers against the invading Saljuk Turks.
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Verena Klemm obtained her Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from the University of Tubingen, Germany. A specialist in Arabic literature and modern Arabic literary discourse, she is the author of Die Mission des fatimidschen Agenten al- Mu'ayyad fi'd-dÌn in äirzz, and a number of other studies in German and English.
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This review is from: Memoirs of a Mission: The Ismaili Scholar, Statesman and Poet, al-Mu'yyad fi'l Din al-Shirazi (Ismaili Heritage) (Hardcover)
I am impressed to have quickly thumb thru this classic era Masterpiece by a revered Fatimid Dai.
It will be a life time study subject. Dai Mu'yyad Shirazi than and continues now to teach the profound knowledge of Fatimid Philosophy and any serious scholar of Islamic Philosophy or Cosmogony at large should read and re-read his work-this work ofcourse being an introduction to the real stuff.
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