Esoteric Apocalypse (Qiyamah): Isma‘ilī Muslim Perspectives on the “End of the World” (Part 1)

“The Qiyāmah is true and will happen, but a full explanation of it, either in theory or in common doctrine, is not easy.”

– Paul Walker, (Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani: Intellectual Missionary, 73)

“We, the Imāms in descent from Imām Husayn, are present until today and we shall remain until the Qiyāmah and even after the Qiyāmah.”

– Imām Shāh Āgā Shāh ‘Alī Shāh

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