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| IIS alumni, 2013 (various topics) | The Shah Faisal Mosque was completed in 1986 at a cost of approximately US $120 million. It was built | IIS alumni, 2013 (various topics) | |
| IMAM SULTAN MUHAMMAD SHAH AND KAISER WILHELM II By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S. Ali | World War I (1914-1919) was one of the deadliest wars in history; an estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military operation, hunger, and disease. Millions more died as a result of genocide, dearth and the devastation of the war heavily contributed to the Spanish flu pandemic that followed. | ||
| Imamate Enthronement Disk Set | THE ISMAILI SECT On the death of Prophet Mohammed in A.D. 632 his followers split into two groups, the Sunnis, who comprise the vast majority of Muslims, and the Shias. The point of issue was the devolution of the authority of the Prophet upon his death. | Imamate Enthronement Disk Cover | |
| IMAMATE – DIVINE INSTITUTION By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S. Ali | IMAMATE – DIVINE INSTITUTION NASKH AND MANSUKH VERSES IN THE KORAN | ||
| IMAM’S PRESENCE IN JAMATKHANA By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S.Ali | “Nothing will make me happier than to know that you are regular in attendance in Jamatkhana, and nothing will hurt me more than to know that you are irregular in attendance. I want to make this very clear indeed. This is for all my spiritual children all over the world.” Mawlana Hazar Imam: Bombay, 8th November, 1967 | ||
| Importance of Friday | The name Friday comes from the Old English frīġedæġ, meaning the "day of Frig", a result of an old convention associating the Germanic goddess Frigg with the Roman goddess Venus, with whom the day is associated in many different cultures. The same holds for Frīatag in Old High German, Freitag in Modern German, and vrijdag in Dutch. | ||
| INCOMPARABLE SACRIFICES OF THE ISMAILIS By; Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S. Ali | “Al-Hamduli’llah, it is now tranquility in present age. You also become alike, not to relinquish religion. Let the body be immolated, but don’t abjure religion. Do not detach faith at the cost of the heads. Your eyes, tongues, hands must deem pure. There must be truth, truth and truth. The human having such qualities certainly figures an angel.” – Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah, 16th Sept., 1899 | ||
| INFALLIBILITY OF THE IMAM By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S. Ali | The word ma’sum is derived from the verb asama, means prevented, hindered, protected, defended, preserved, etc. Hence, ma’sum refers to one who is incapable of error and sin. In Islamic theology, the Arabic term isma both impeccability and closely are related notion of infallibility, which is not an inherent quality, but rather a divine gift bestowed on the Prophets and Imams, who are immune from any sort of lapse and error. Isma (infallibility) is considered a basic feature of the Imamate. | ||
| Islamic History B: From the Crusades to the 'Gunpowder Empires' | The Muslims were religiously and politically fragmented during the mid-tenth and eleventh centuries. However, these conditions witnessed profound changes when the Seljuks came onto the scene. The emergence of the Seljuks as the new ruling elite was often called the period of Sunni revival. Sunni Islam became a leading player again after it overthrew the Buyyid Shi’i dynasty in Baghdad and parts of Iran. Moreover, they sponsored Sunni religious institutions and religious scholars until it reached extraordinary heights. | Islamic History B: From the Crusades to the 'Gunpowder Empires' | |
| Islamic History B: From the Crusades to the 'Gunpowder Empires' | The Muslims were religiously and politically fragmented during the mid-tenth and eleventh centuries. However, these conditions witnessed profound changes when the Seljuks came onto the scene. The emergence of the Seljuks as the new ruling elite was often called the period of Sunni revival. Sunni Islam became a leading player again after it overthrew the Buyyid Shi’i dynasty in Baghdad and parts of Iran. Moreover, they sponsored Sunni religious institutions and religious scholars until it reached extraordinary heights. | Islamic History B: From the Crusades to the 'Gunpowder Empires' | |
| ISLAMISATION ON THE IRANIAN PERIPHERY: NASIR-I KHUSRAW AND ISMAILISM IN BADAKHSHAN | IT HAS LONG BEEN recognised in the scholarship on Islamisation that Muslim governors and administrators in Iran and Central Asia under the early caliphate, with few exceptions, displayed little interest in instigating mass conversion to Islam. | ISLAMISATION ON THE IRANIAN PERIPHERY: NASIR-I KHUSRAW AND ISMAILISM IN BADAKHSHAN | |
| Ismaili Conciliation and Arbitration: NCAB Canada Submission to Ontario Arbitration Review | His Highness Prince Aga Khan Shia Imami Ismaili Please see attached PDF for full text | NCAB Canada Submission to Ontario Arbitration Review | |
| Ismaili Missionaries | The impediment, which belonged to the inner nature of the preaching of Islam was connected with its conservatism of forms. When the preaching started amongst the heathen Arabs, it was easy indeed to demand that they would learn the new forms of worship and accept the new scriptures in the Arabic language. Perhaps it was not so difficult in the case of Semitic peoples who lived in close touch with the Arabs. | Ismaili Missionaries | |
| ISMAILI TARIQAH IN ISLAM by Mumtaz Ali Tajdin S. Ali | Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah said, “Ismailism is a reality in Islam. Islam is a foundation and Ismailism stands seventh in rank of its reality.” (Karachi: 15th April, 1922), and “Islam is a best religion, in which the Ismailism is praiseworthy. Other sects scattered, but the rope of the Ismailism is absolutely straight; coming direct from the Holy Prophet.” (Nairobi: 22nd February, 1937) WHAT IS TARIQAH ? | ||
| Ismailis in Russia | In Russia, or U.S.S.R., Ismaili villages are only found in the valley of the river Panj which, after its confluence with Wakhsh, or Wakhshab, forms the mighty Oxus or Amu-Darya river of Central Asia. These Ismailis are often wrongly called "Pamir Ismailis", not because they inhabit the plateau of the "Roof of the World", Pamir, but because they reside on its borders, in the gorges which open into the valley of Panj. Only few Qirgniz nomad tribes who with their flocks roam the cold and arid expanse of the Pamir tableland, deserve to be called the real inhabitants of the place. | Ismailis in Russia | |
| Isma‘ili Da‘wa and Politics in Fatimid Egypt | This paper will discuss the mutual influence between politics and the Isma‘ili da‘wa, particularly after the establishment of the Fatimid government in Egypt. Some questions arise at this point, such as: ‘what were the circumstances that influenced the | Isma‘ili Da‘wa and Politics in Fatimid Egypt | |
| THE IRANIAN SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHICAL ISMAILISM | By the end of the 3rd/9th century, much of the intellectual heritage of antiquity had become available to Muslims. This had resulted from the great movement of translating numerous texts of Greek wisdom into Arabic. The works of Plato (Aflāṭūn), Aristotle (Arisṭūtālīs), Galen (Jālīnūs), Ptolemy (Baṭlamiyūs) and many other Greek sages were intitially translated into Syriac-Aramaic mainly by the Christian scholars of Mesopotamia and Syria, who then translated the same materials into Arabic. | ||
| The Ismaili "Ginan" Tradition from the Indian Subcontinent | Ginans are devotional songs rooted in the musical and poetic matrix of Indian culture. The term "ginan" carries a double significance: on the one hand, it means "religious knowledge" or "wisdom," analogous to the Sanskrit word jnana | The Ismaili Ginan Literature - Its Structure and Love Symbolism | |
| The Ismaili of Central Asia | The Ismailis are one of the largest Muslim minority populations of Central Asia, and they make up the second largest Shiʿi Muslim community globally. First emerging in the second half of the 8th century, the Ismaili missionary movement spread into many areas of the Islamic world in the 10th century, under the leadership of the Ismaili Fatimids caliphs in Egypt. The movement achieved astounding success in Central Asia in the 10th century, when many of the political and cultural elites of the region were converted. | The Ismaili of Central Asia | |
| The Ismaili of Central Asia | The Ismailis are one of the largest Muslim minority populations of Central Asia, and they make up the second largest Shiʿi Muslim community globally. First emerging in the second half of the 8th century, the Ismaili missionary movement spread into many areas of the Islamic world in the 10th century, under the leadership of the Ismaili Fatimids caliphs in Egypt. The movement achieved astounding success in Central Asia in the 10th century, when many of the political and cultural elites of the region were converted. | The Ismaili of Central Asia |
