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This thesis presents the history of Islam in 11th/17th – 12th/18th century North Africa from a new angle. Our focus is the history of the Nāṣiriyya brotherhood, a spiritual community that emerged along Morocco’s Southeastern Saharan frontier during the mid-11th/17th century. Bas…

The patterns of socio/political transformation that Iran went through in the 20th century generated episodes of great ideological divergence within Iran's shi'ite establishment. The current study seeks to shed light on an instance of textual exchange that took place in the earli…