From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #8948 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Tuesday, May 10 2022 Volume 14 : Number 8948 Today's Subjects: ----------------- This Will Be Worse Than Pearl Harbor... ["Pearl Harbor" Subject: This Will Be Worse Than Pearl Harbor... This Will Be Worse Than Pearl Harbor... http://vogener.biz/DFIR4sKgp7dBF5Eg2GFGkI-bq2Xmyv6dn1GXF4yx8blJp_H5Kw http://vogener.biz/qGbOmonTUG0xvnOiTg4F4ivmjioeK0zRL_ZNqbnUwTV2HPyGMg matter of political intrigue, but also intensely religious. In the words of the modern pioneer of Isma'ili studies, Samuel Miklos Stern, "on it depended the continuity of institutional religion as well as the personal salvation of the believer". To the Isma'ili faithful, writes Stern, it was "not so much the person of the claimant that weighed with his followers; they were not moved by any superior merits of Nizar as a ruler it was the divine right personified in the legitimate heir that counted". As a result, the events of 1094b1095 caused a bitter and permanent schism in the Isma'ili movement that continues to the present. While al-Musta'li was recognized by the Fatimid elites and the official Isma'ili religious establishment (the da'wa), as well as the Isma'ili communities dependent on it in Syria and Yemen, most of the Isma'ili communities in the wider Middle East, and especially Persia and Iraq, rejected it. Whether out of genuine conviction, or as a convenient excuse to rid himself of Cairo's control, the chief Isma'ili da'i in Persia, Hassan-i Sabbah, swiftly recognized Nizar's rights to the imamate, severed relations with ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #8948 **********************************************