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II. Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asia / Ближний Восток, Кавказ и Центральная Азия 96 Proceedings of the International Congress on Historiography and Source Studies of Asia and Africa.Vol. I. 2020 at every step, often rejecting even such information which remained beyond suspicion till now”. 1 He knew that the first step in this new academic under- taking would be the development of a guide to Ismaili literature, in order to map the available sources and guide students of Ismaili studies. Accord- ingly, he published A Guide to Ismaili Literature in 1933. As he avowed, the work was primarily based on Fihrist al-kutub wa al-rasāʾ il (The Index of Books and Treatises), popularly known as al-Majdū ʿ or Fihrist al-Majd uʿ (The Index of theMutilated One), written by Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbd al-Rasūl al-Ajīnī (d. 1769–70). 2 The original Fihrist was arranged in twelve chapters, which served as broad themes for specific sub-genres of Ismaili literature. 3 Three decades later, Ivanow revised A Guide to Ismaili Literature and published the results of his systematic efforts in recovering the Ismaili manuscripts and titles, and catalogued them under Ismaili Literature: A Bibliographical Survey (1963). 4 Three years later, in 1966, Tehran University Press also published Al-Ajīnī’s Fihrist al-kutub wa al-ra sāʾ il (or Fihrist al-Majdu ʿ ) in its original Arabic. 1 Ivanow W. Ibn Al-Qaddah: The Alleged Founder of Ismailism. (2nd edn.). Bombay, 1957. P. i. 2 Ivanow W. A Guide to Ismaili Literature. P. v. 3 The original Fihrist was arranged in twelve chapters: 1) Arabic grammar ( qaw āʿi d al-lugha ), 2) basic sermons ( al-maw āʿiẓ ), 3) books of jurisprudence ( kutub al-fiqh ), 4) col- lection of Ismaili poetical books ( al-dawāwīn ), 5) sermons on ethics of the highest order ( al-akhlāq min al-sa ṭḥ al-ʿ ālī ), 6) books of history and biographies ( al-tawārīkh wa siyar ), 7) books of the esoteric ranks ( al-kutub al-bā ṭ inyya al-martaba ), 8) the esoteric books of the lowest ranks ( al-Kutub a l-bāṭin min al-saṭḥ al-dānī ), 9) matters about the truth ( al-mas āʾil fī al-ḥaqāʾ iq ), 10) the higher class of esoteric knowledge ( al -ṭabaqa al-ʿuliyy a min al-kutub fī ʿilm al-bāṭi n ), 11) unclassified esoteric books of the highest ranks ( al-Kutub al- bāṭiniyya ghayr al-munaẓẓama min al-saṭḥ al-ʿ ālī ), and 12) miscellaneous books ( al-kutub al-mutafāriqa ). Al-Ajīnī I. b. ʿA. Fihrist al-kutub wa al-rasāʾil (The Index of Books and Treatises), or [Fihrist] al-Majduʿ ([The Index of] the Mutilated One). Tehran, 1966. P. 9–10. 4 Ivanow W. Ismaili Literature: A Bibliographical Survey. Tehran, 1963. W. Iwanov. A Guide to Ismaili Literature