Lalani, Arzina R.: - Degrees of Excellence: A Fatimid Treatise on Leadership in Islam. A new Arabic edition and English translation of Ahmad b. Ibrahim al-Naysaburi's "Kitab ithbat al-imama".

London: I. B. Tauris, 2010. First edition thus. 8vo., pp. xvi, 111 + text in Arabic (from rear). Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, a hint only of shelf-wear only: almost as new. No. 8 in the Ismaili Texts and Translations Series of the Institute of Ismaili Studies.

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