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Knowledge and Liberation: A Treatise on Philosophical Theology by Nasir Khusraw, a new edition and English translation of the Gushayish wa Rahayish by Faquir M. Hunzai with an introduction and commentary by Parviz Morewedge, London: I. B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 1998, xii + 132 + 92 (in Persian) pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Ismail K. Poonawala
Ismail K. Poonawala*
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University of California, Los Angeles
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Iranian Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , Summer 1999 , pp. 411 - 413
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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 1999

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4. It should be noted that the book was translated into Italian by Filippani-Ronconi, P., Il libro dello scioglimento e della liberazione (Napoli, 1959).Google Scholar It contains a section on the terminology and peculiarities of Nasir Khusraw's language and a glossary of special vocabulary.