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| The Vedas as Sources of Satpanthi Ismaili Ginan Literature - Full Text | INTRODUCTION This is a unique work on the Vedas as sources for Sathpanthi Ginans. The article was prepared by late Dr Gulshan Khakee, a pioneer Ismaili Scholar from Harvard. Preface by Heritage Admin: I read her Thesis on Das Avatara in the late 1970s’ and while searching for Manuscript in Gujarat in 1988, the “Mota Kaka”, the leaders of the Imam Shahis in Pirana told me that she came in the early 1970s’ to visit and was a dedicated researcher, they gave her a manuscript of the “Anant Akhado.” | The Vedas as Sources of Satpanthi Ismaili Ginan Literature | |
| VARIOUS TASBIHAT By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S. Ali | Tasbih (Eulogy) The word tasbih is derived from sbh means to glide or swim. In Aramaic it had long meant to praise. The Arabic writers describe this type of praise as swimming in a shoreless sea: “He praises (yusabbih) in a shoreless sea” (Majmu’atu’l Ahzab, p. 563). The tasbih is often described as the occupation of all the angels: “Those who are in your Lord’s abode do not think themselves too great to worship Him. They offer praise (yusabbihuna) to Him and prostrate themselves before Him” (7:205). | ||
| VERNACULAR SCRIPTS OF THE INDUS VALLEY AND BEYOND | After a brief introduction to the Khūdāwādī, the presentation will deal with a salient question: why did the Khūdāwādī fail to be constructed as a community script as the Khojkī was with the Khojas and the Gurmukhī with the Sikhs ? | VERNACULAR SCRIPTS OF THE INDUS VALLEY AND BEYOND |
