dawr al-kashf (cycle of epiphany), , 165

dawr al-satr (cycle of concealment), , 36, 41, 163, 165–167, 183

dhāt (essence), , 192, 198

dhikr (remembering God), , 9, 18, 76, 78–79, 90

dīdār (spiritual congregation), , 9–10, 18, 25, 101, 148, 155, 177

dīhqān-isāb (farmers calendar), , 92

dil (heart), , 115, 125–126

divine love, 9, 17, 19, 118, 128, 134, 136, 145, 149

fanā (annihilation), , 9, 122–123, 148

farmān (instructions, guidance of the Imam of the Time), , 40, 45, 56, 78

farmān-khāna (lit. house of orders), , 46, 68–69

Fah Alī Shāh Qājār (d. 1834), , 40

Fāima bint Muhammad, , 5, 31, 45, 48, 164, 193, 197

Ghadīr-i Khumm, event, , 199, 206, 209

ghulāt (lit. exaggerators), , 195, 197, 211

gūsha-yi khilvat (corner of retreat), , 75

adīth, , 16, 22, 116, 139, 156, 205, 208, 212

āfi, Shams al-Dīn Muammad (d. 1389), Persian poet, , 128, 132, 157, 180, 208

haft udūd-i dīn (seven boundaries of religion), , 56

āl (spiritual state), , 71, 73, 81, 134, 137, 179, 184–185

al-allāj, usayn b. Manūr (d. 922), , 84, 116, 120, 128–130, 133

hama ūst (all is He), , 175, 183

aqīqat (religious truth), , 17, 73, 119–120, 181, 199

asan-i abbā (d. 1124), , 35, 49

himma (spiritual power), , 149, 151, 202

al-ujwīrī, Alī b. Uthmān (d. 1072), Sufi author, , 189

ujjat (lit. proof), , 32, 35, 40, 56, 77, 206

Ibn al-Arabī (d. 1240), Islamic scholar and mystic, , 128, 208, 222

Ibn al-Nadīm (d. 995), 28

ilm al-qulūb (science of the hearts), , 171

Isaac (Ishāq), 171

Ishmael (Ismāīl), , 171

ishq (passionate love), , 9, 134, 202

Ismāīlī Dawa in Cantral Asia

al-Nasafī, Muammad b. Amad (d. 943), , 28

dāī (missionary), , 32, 76, 148

dāī al-duāt (the chief missionary), , 32, 56, 77

dawat-i baqā (lit. subsistence mission), , 68, 110, 124

dawat-i fanā (lit. annihilation mission), , 68

Dawat-i Nāir, , 6, 7, 14, 28, 31–32, 35

isrā (the Prophet’s night journey), , 178–179, 180, 185, 203

Isrāfīl (Seraphail), 15

Istakhrī (d. 993), early Islamic author, 29, 55