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| Pandavo no Parab - An Unpublished Granth | By Nazim Daredia THE WORK: This Granth, also known as Pandave jo Parab, was composed by Sayyed Imam Shah and contains 578 verses. It has virtually the same theme as Buddh Avatar of Pir Sadardin. The Granth continues the story of the Pandavas after the win the war against their cousins turned enemies the Kurus. Concurrently it narrates the coming of the ninth Avatar in the form which came to be known as Buddh who saves the Pandavas from deviating from their true faith. PREVIOUS EDITIONS: | Pandavo no Parab - An Unpublished Granth | |
| Pensée pour l'éblouissant Golden Jubilee Darbar de Paris | 11 Decembre2008-11 décembre 2009 Que brille toujours la Lumière Noor de Mowla projetée par le prisme du Darbar Deedar sur l’ Arc-en ciel fraternel sans frontières ! Voilà un an, on célébrait le dernier Darbar du Golden Jubilee au cœur de Paris. | Pensée pour l'éblouissant Golden Jubilee Darbar de Paris | |
| Persecutions against Ismaʿili Missionaries in Central Asia: The Case of Nāser Khosrow | Local governors in Central Asia persecuted Ismaʿili missionaries (dāʿis) since the early years of Ismaʿili activity there. The rise of the Fatimid State, from the tenth century onwards, encouraged the activity of those missionaries who were receiving support from the Fatimids, leading to increased persecutions of Ismaʿilis in Iraq and the eastern provinces of the Abbasid Caliphate.This study will deal with the activity of those missionaries and the difficulties and persecutions that they faced, with a focus on the case of the dāʿi Nāser Khosrow (1004–1088/394–481) in Central Asia. | Persecutions against Ismaʿili Missionaries in Central Asia: The Case of Nāser | |
| PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL ISMAILI STUDIES CONFERENCE | Attendance at the Second International Ismaili Studies Conference was an act of courage for some of its participants. They had been concerned that they would be breaking an unwritten rule by being present at an event on Ismaili Studies that was organized independently of established Ismāʿīlī (Nizārī, Mustaʿlī, Druze etc.) institutions. Some institutional employees who were interested in attending had found themselves considering whether the conference was an “approved” gathering. | PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL ISMAILI STUDIES CONFERENCE | |
| Proposal to Encode the Khojki Script in ISO/IEC 10646 | Full text can be downloaded from the pdf attachment below. Contents Proposal Summary Form i 1 Introduction 1 2 Background 1 3 Characters Proposed 4 3.1 Character Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 TheWriting System 7 | Proposal to Encode the Khojki Script in ISO/IEC 10646 | |
| The Philosophical Significance of the Imam in Isma'ilism | While the Sunnis believe in five pillars in Islam, the Isma'ilis raise them to seven. Al-Qadi an-Nu'man devoted the first volume of his famous book Da'a'im al-Islam to the description of these pillars and an elaboration of them. The first of these seven pillars, as al-Qadi an-Nu'man mentions, is Faith (Iman). He also calls it walaya, which means allegiance or devotion. The other six are successively Ritual Purification (tahara), prayer (salat), Alms Tax (zakat), Fasting (sawm), Pilgrimage (hajj), and Holy War (jihad). | The Philosophical Significance of the Imam in Isma'ilism | |
| The Prophetic Figure of Adam in the Fatimid Tradition | In this monograph prepared in 1991 for presentation at the SOS Khojki Conference organised by the Heritage Society, Professor Shin Nomoto discusses the role of Adam in history from the point of view of two sources of Fatimid Origin: 1) From the Kitak al-Riyad of Da'i Hami al-Din Khirmani(d.1021AD) with reference to the debate on Adam's Prophecy by Abu Hatim al-razi (d.935) and Abu Yaqub Sijistani. 2) The second sources used in this monograph is from the 13th Century Tayyibi Da'i husayn b. Ali b. Muhammad b. al-Walid (d.1298) | The prophetic Figure of Adam within the Fatimid Tradition |
