The Impact of Ismailism on Thought d’al-Batalyawsī (1127)

Secret Da‘wa Ismaelite has continued its activity and expansion in the Muslim world and in the Islamic West (Andalus). The teaching of Ismailism provided a complete and coherent vision of God, the universe and the meaning of history. Principally, embodied general Islamic beliefs and ideas and chi‘ites. It also absorbed part of the Greek spiritual and intellectual heritage, which was strongly rejected by many conservative scholars and would undoubtedly become part of Islamic cultural civilization. The purpose of this article, entitled "The Influence of Ismaelism in the Thought of Ibn al-Ssīd", is an attempt to affirm and evaluate the existence of these Ismaili ideas in the treatise al-ḥadā’iq. The latter, influenced by the intellectual climate of Ismaelism, played a major role through its Gnostic and Platonic spirit. He dealt up to date in most of the philosophical questions such as the idea of emanation, the hierarchization of beings in the world and the theory of intellects etc. Thus, the idea of circles has occupied a very important place in kitāb al-ḥadā’iq. It was adopted by the majority of philosophers and Sufis and many others to facilitate the understanding of creation theory. It is among the most dominant ideas in his treatise al-ḥadāʻiq.