SLIS Student Ali Jiwa Publishes An Ismaili Studies Bibliography

Nawazali A. Jiwa, a recent graduate of SLIS, has published a bibliographic article titled "Addenda to Secondary Sources in Ismāʿīlī Studies: The Case of the Omissions," in MELA Notes: Journal of Middle Eastern Librarianship 86 (2013): 20-101.

Ali identifies over 600 sources (published to 2003) that have been omitted by Tajdin and Daftary. Ali's bibliography is a significant contribution to bibliographical studies relating to Ismailism. This source will be an invaluable reference tool for scholars and students of Ismaili studies. To date, there have been two major bibliographies of secondary sources in Ismaili studies, namely Nagib Tajdin's A Bibliography of Ismailism (Delmar, NY, 1985), and Farhad Daftary's Ismaili Literature: A Bibliography of Sources and Studies (London, 2004). Ali's bibliography provides a useful complementary source for scholars and researchers. The full text of the bibliography is available at the MELA Notes homepage http://mela.us/MELANotes/MELA-Notes.html or at http://mela.us/MELANotes/MELANotesPDF/MELANotes86.pdf