The Book of Unveiling

The Unveiling is a notoriously difficult text … In that sense, and as a real contribution to classical Islamic intellectual history, Gillon’s book gives us an accessible, learned, and thoughtful prism to approach the period and unveil the Unveiling. * Muslim World Review *
…we should give ample credit to Gillon for all the light shed on what I find a most difficult and perplexing task, one deeply involved in trying to explain and elucidate this particular Ismaili work. It cannot have been easy and yet Gillon seems to have done enviably well where many of us would have given up in despair. * Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia *

Fârès Gillon is Associate Professor in Islamic Studies and Arabic at Aix-Marseille University, France. He received his PhD from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris), and specializes in the intellectual history of early Shiism, with a particular focus on Fatimid Ismailism. He has published several articles on these topics, and has also co-edited with Mathieu Terrier Anthologie de la philosophie en Islam (Paris, 2023). Previously, he was a Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies. His research interests include Shi’i history and doctrines, Ismailism, Nusayrism and Islamic Philosophy.

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