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| SHAH DIDAR JO PANJO By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S. Ali | The word shah didar or shah’jo didar means may (you bless with) Lord’s glimpse. Its noun becomes Shah Didar jo Panjo means the palm and fingers for the didar of the Lord. |
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| Lailat Al-Qadr 15 Chantas | A BRIEF EXPLANATION OF 15 CHANTAS |
LAILTUL QADR, Qadr | |
| The Shi'i World: Pathways in Tradition and Modernity | Except for a handful of recent sources, there has been a lack of ample introductory level texts suitable for teaching Shi'ism to undergraduate students. | literature, Twelver Shiism, Shi’i Islam, art, gender, cinema, and music within contemporary global Shi’ism | |
| The Aga Khan Case: Religion and Identity in Colonial India Cambridge | The Aga Khan Case straddles several disciplinary boundaries, including history, textual analysis, religious studies, and anthropology. Her ambition is to examine change in religious tradition through legal and historical textual analysis. | Aga Khan Case, Religion and Identity, Colonial India | |
| IIS alumni, 2013 (various topics) | The Shah Faisal Mosque was completed in 1986 at a cost of approximately US $120 million. It was built through the support of King Faisal Bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia, and is named in his honour. | Fatimid Code of Conduct, Cultural Connections, Al Sabah Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Hagia Sophia | |
| The Dhimmis and their Role in the Administration of the Fatimid State | One of the most recurring questions today is the Islamic state's relationship with the dhimmis (Jews and Christians living under early Muslim rule) and their status in the early days of Islam and up to the late days of the Islamic Caliphate. | The Dhimmis, Fatimid State, Islamic history, Islamic civilization. | |
| 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 ? | khojkī sindhī script, Indus Valley Scripts, Khudawadi script, Tughluq Era in Medieval Sindh, Khojki manuscript from Zanzibar | |
| Les manuscrits du sud de la vallée de l’Indus en écriture khojkī sindhī | This article presents an overview of research on the corpus of eighteenth to twentieth century manuscripts from south of the Indus valley in Khojkī Sindhī script. | manuscripts, khojkī sindhī script, Khojas, āghā khān, satpanth | |
| Sectarian References of Political Position of Nizārī Ismāʿīlīs in 11th and 12th centuries | Reinterpretation of Quran and hadith, both of which had been mainly seen two basic sources of Islam, was a critical issue of the late 8th century when the last tabiins were died. | Islam, Reinterpretation, Quran and hadith, tabiins, Zoroastrian culture, Hellenistic culture of Near East, Banu Hashim, Banu Umayya, Mecca, Uthman, Muaviye, caliphate of Ali, Hashimi | |
| 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. | Muslim World, Seljuks | |
| Islamic History B: From the Crusades to the 'Gunpowder Empires' | Muslim World, Seljuks | ||
| Negotiating the Racial Boundaries of Khōjā Caste Membership in Late Nineteenth-Century Colonial Zanzibar (1878–1899) | This article explores late nineteenth-century identity formation and caste boundaries among the Khōjā of colonial Zanzibar. | Ismaili, Aga Khan, Zanzibar, Khōjā, chotara, jotawa, Ithnā ʿAsharī, firman, jamatnego | |
| The Turkic Dynasties of Ghaznavids and Seljuqs role in Consolidating a Sunni Identity | When considering the role of the incoming Turks into the general Islamic culture of this period, it is conventional to perceive them as zealous converts to Islam and fervent supporters of the Sunna. | ismailis, Islamic Culture, Turks, Sunna, Sunni, Orthodoxy, Abbasid Caliphs, Shii Buyids, Ismaili Fatimids, Samarra, Turkish Military Slaves, Chalip al-Mutasim, Mahmud of Ghazna | |
| Al-‘Aziz bi’llah | Al-‘Aziz bi’llah Abu Mansur Nizar b. Abu Tamim Ma‘add al-Mu‘izz li-Din Allah (955–996 CE), the fifth Fatimid imam-caliph was the first sovereign of his dynasty to begin his rule in Egypt. | Abbasid, Al-‘Aziz bi’llah Abu Mansur Nizar b. Abu Tamim Ma‘add al-Mu‘izz li-Din Allah, the fifth Fatimid imam-caliph, Egypt. the Fatimids, Mediterranean Empire, Byzantine, Andalusian Umayyad | |
| The Effects of Succession Crisis between Bayezid II and Cem Sultan on Ottoman Foreign Policy | After the era of Bayezid I who first left Ottoman gradual conquest policy that depended on negotiation and compromise with both local and imperial powers rather than direct centralized authority belonging to Sultan’s initiative, Ottomans faced first interregnum period in which each successor tried t | Bayezid I; Ottoman; Ankara battle; beyliks; Seyh Bedreddin; Mehmed I; devletin bekas | |
| SECTARIANIST WRITINGS IN ISLAM: PREJUDICE AGAINST THE HASHSHASHIN IN 12TH AND 13TH CENTURY MUSLIM HISTORIOGRAPHY | This paper seeks to present a review and analysis of medieval Muslim historiography – especially that originating in what constitutes modern-day Iran, Iraq, and Syria, or the-then Seljuk Empire – with exclusive reference to its anti-Nizari Isma’ili content. | medieval Muslim historiography, anti-Nizari Isma’ili, Hashshashin, al- Mustansir bi’Allah, Fatimid Empire, Assassins | |
| Taqiyya and Identity in a South Asian Community | The Guptı¯s of Bhavnagar, India, represent an unexplored case of taqiyya, or precautionary dissimulation, and challenge traditional categories of religious identity in South Asia. | Ismaili, Sunnis, Aga Khan, Guptıs of Bhavnagar, taqiyya, South Asia. Shı‘a, Ithna-asharı, Ismaili imam, Hindus, avata’a | |
| Fortresses of the Intellect Ismaili and Other Islamic Studies | Bibliography | ||
| A Short History of the Ismailis Traditions of a Muslim Community | The Ismailis represent the second largest Shi‘i Muslim community after the Twelvers (Ithna‘ asharis), and are today scattered as religious minorities in more than twenty-five countries of Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. | ismailis, Islamic civilisation, Shi‘i Muslim, Ismaili teachings and practices, Ismaili history and thought | |
| A teaching and learning guide for: “A survey of Ismaili studies Part 1” and “A survey of Ismaili studies Part 2” | Ismailis, make up the second largest branch of Shi‘i Islam after the Twelvers (Ithna ‘Ashariyyah). | ismailis, Shi‘i Islam, religious authority, ‘ulama, divinely inspired knowledge, Ali b. Abi Talib, Imamat. Ithna Asharis, Zaydis | |
| The Egyptian Art of the Tiraz in Fatimid Times | Known as the “granary” of Rome in Pre-Islamic times, Egypt’s fertile agrarian base also enabled it to be the pre-eminent grower of flax in pre-modern times. | Egyptian Art, Tirazan Fatmid times, flax, linen, textile industry | |
| Beyond the Qur’ān: Early Ismaʿīlī Taʾwīl and the Secrets of the Prophets | Scholarship on the history and doctrines of Shi‘i Ismaili Muslims has progressed at a dizzying pace over the last few decades. | Doctrines of Shi‘i Ismaili Muslims, Ismailism’s socio-political activities, Fatimid era, Nizari state of Alamut, taʾwīl | |
| THE FATIMID HOLY CITY: REBUILDING JERUSALEM IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY | This essay explores the architectural history of Jerusalem in the Abbasid (751– 970) and Fatimid (970– 1036) periods. Compared to the time of the Umayyads (661– 750), Abbasid-era Jerusalem was characterized by a caliphal disinterest in the monuments of the holy city. | fatimid, Abbasid, Abbasid-era Jerusalem, Fatimid dynasty, al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, Holy Sepulchre, al-Zahir, Haram al- Sharif | |
| THE FATIMID EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION IN EGYPT | This paper tries to investigate the Fatimid educational administration experience in Egypt. It starts by reviewing the historical conditions that paved the way for the establishment of this Ismā’īli state, as well as the principal foundations of their ideology. | Egypt, Fatimid educational administration, Ismā’īli state, medieval Islam, administration of educational activities | |
| The Fatimid Caliphate Diversity of Traditions | The Fatimid era is ubiquitous today in the discourse of the Nizari Ismaili imamate.1 Yet this was not always the case. | Ismaili Imamate; Fatimid Caliphate; Fatimid-Abbasid rivalry; Qāḍī al-Nu'mān; female prayer leadership; Nizārī Ismaili Imamate | |
| The Narrative Prayers ( kaha ) of the Indo-African Khōjā | The Khōjā are an Indic Muslim caste whose origins lie in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Punjab and Kashmir. Over the following centuries a section of the community began a migration down the Indus valley and eastward into Kutch and Kathiawar, located in present-day Gujarat. | Khōjā, Indic Muslim, Kutch, Kathiawar | |
| Studying Isma‘ili Texts in Eleventh-Century Shiraz: al-Mu'ayyad and the “Conversion” of the Buyid Amir Abu Kalijar | As a key primary source for the history of the eleventh-century Isma‘ili majlis, the Fatimid chief missionary al-Mu’ayyad fi al-Din al-Shirazi’s autobiographical Sira offers a prime opportunity to consider the application of centralizing features of the Fatimid state in eleventh-century Buyid Shiraz | Fatimid Isma‘ili da‘wa. | |
| The Qā’im and Qiyāma Doctrines in the Thought of Fāṭimid and Alamūt Ismāʿīlism: The Evolution of a Doctrine | This extraordinary narrative account vividly depicts a declaration proclaimed on 8th August 11642, during the Islamic month of Ramaḍān just after noon in the mountain fortresses of Alamūt. | fatimid, Qiyama, Ismāʿīlīs, Ḥasan alā dhikrihi al-salām | |
| The Ismaili of Central Asia | Ismailism, Tajikistan, central asia, afghanistan, Pamirs, BADAKHSHAN, Nasir-i Khusraw, Shiʿism | ||
| 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. | Ismailism, Tajikistan, central asia, afghanistan, Pamirs, BADAKHSHAN, Nasir-i Khusraw, Shiʿism |