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Contemplation and Action: The Spiritual Autobiography of a Muslim Scholar, A new edition and English translation of Nasir al-Din Tusi's Sayr wa Suluk by S. J. Badakhchani, London: I. B. Tauris in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 1998, xiii + 86 + 22 pp. (includes text in Persian).
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2022
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page 206 note 1. It is said that when Hulegu hesitated to execute the last Abbasid caliph Tusi talked his new master out of his scruples by pointing out that even the decapitation of John the Baptist and the murderers of ᶜAli and Husayn had not been avenged by terrible divine punishment. Hence the caliph met his end by throttling, as the Mongols did not want to spill his blood.
page 207 note 1. Dabashi, Hamid “The Philosopher/vizier: Khwaja Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and the Ismaᶜilis,” in Mediaeval Ismaᶜili History and Thought, ed. Daftary, Farhad (Cambridge, 1996), 231-45Google Scholar, offers a different perspective on Tusi's life.