الإمام علي بن أبي طالب عليه السلام وبنوه في مصنفات الداعي إدريس عماد الدين القرشي (ت872هـ /1467م)

Rp-Imam Ali bin Abi Talib, peace be upon him, and his sons In the works of the preacher Idris Imad al-Din al-Qurashi (d. 872 AH / 1467 AD) .pdf

The works of the preacher Idris Imad al-Din represent the Ismaili vision of the events of Fatimid history, which is an important vision for researchers in Fatimid history because it represents the other side of the historical narrative of events. What was written about the Fatimids was by their enemies, so the presence of a Fatimid Ismaili historian such as the preacher Idris Imad al-Din is necessary to know the accounts and put them in their correct framework.
The preacher Idris Imad al-Din alone mentioned detailed information about the Ismaili imams in the period of concealment that are not mentioned in other sources, as he was keen to record the news of the Ismaili imams in the role of concealment from Muhammad bin Ismail until the emergence of Abdullah al-Mahdi and his establishment of the Fatimid state in Morocco, and he was able to transmit directly From Fatimid sources, some of them are still missing due to their remaining manuscripts in the treasures of the Ismaili preachers, and the great secrecy that the Ismailis surround them with, their books as a result of the calamities that the Ismaili call went through at the hands of its enemies, which led to the burning and destruction of a large number of Ismaili literature Among the lost sources quoted by Idris Imad al-Din are biographies such as the biography of al-Mu’izz, the biography of al-Katamiyya, the biography of al-Yazuri, the biography of al-Jamali, and Fatimid history books such as the history of Ibn Zulaq and the history of al-Musabi, of which only a small part has reached..
The importance of studying these works comes from the fact that they are looking at a period that is considered a crossroads in the history of the Islamic nation and it is still the focus of research and political and intellectual tensions, just as the preacher Idris Imad al-Din did not receive the full attention of researchers at the level he deserves or equivalent to the effort he made in studying and writing down the events that took place in the history of the nation Islamic history, especially the history of Imam Ali bin Abi Talib and his sons (peace be upon them), and the formation of a new vision of Fatimid history that differs from what was written by the opponents of the Fatimid state.