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| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| A Modern History of the Ismailis Continuity and Change in a Muslim Community | Modern History Ismailis | ||
| A Modern History of the Ismailis Continuity and Change in a Muslim Community | There are between 70,000 and 80,000 Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims (also known as Nizari Ismaili Muslims, or simply, Ismailis) in Canada. The largest settlements are in Toronto and Vancouver, with substantial communities (jamats; jama'ats) located in Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal and Ottawa. | Modern History Ismailis | |
| Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy and the Myth of the Hachichins: Orientalizing hashish in nineteenth-century France | Building on recent historical scholarship on drugs and European empires, this study shows how early French conceptions of hashish use emerged from a popular imperial imaginary developing across Europe and the West during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that routinely envisaged drugs as stere | Hachichins, :Orientalizing hashish | |
| An Assessment Batiniyya In History Of Seljuk | history, Seljuks | ||
| An Assessment Batiniyya In History Of Seljuk | In this essay, we discuss about history of Batinids through to the Seljuk state. This article was prepared for Seljuk History (HIST 209) lecture which given by Prof. Dr. Tufan Buzpınar at Istanbul Şehir University. | history, Seljuks | |
| Al-Shaykh al-Ṭūsī: His Writings on Theology and their Reception* | While the theological thought of Twelver Shiʿism during the 3rd/9th and 4th/10th centuries has been studied relatively well (as much as is possible on the basis of the few, mostly secondary sources that are preserved),1 little is known about its doctrinal developments from the early 5th/11th century | theology, Al-Shaykh al-Ṭūsī | |
| Alamūt, Ismailism and Khwāja Qāsim Tushtarī’s Recognizing God | history | ||
| Alamūt, Ismailism and Khwāja Qāsim Tushtarī’s Recognizing God | Drawing extensively on the testimony of the Persian historians of the seventh-eighth hijri centuries (corresponding to the thirteen-fourteenth centuries of the Christian era), this article sketches a detailed picture of several personalities involved in founding the nascent Ismaili state centred at | history | |
| Addenda to Secondary Sources in Ismāʿīlī Studies: The Case of the Omissions | To date, there have been two major bibliographies of secondary sources in Ismāʿīlī studies, namely Nagib Tajdin’s A Bibliography of Ismailism1 and Farhad Daftary’s Ismāʿīlī Literature: A Bibliography of Sources and Studies (hereafter referred to as Ismāʿīlī Literature).2 The present bibliography is | Ismaili bibliography | |
| A Semiotics of Infinite Translucence: The Exoteric and Esoteric in Ismaili Muslim Hermeneutics | The complex juxtaposition of private practice and public visibility/invisibility of contemporary Ismaili Muslims has certain parallels with other religious communities, but it exhibits unique features. | Islam; Hermeneutics | |
| A History of Syncretism of the Khoja Muslim Community | Medieval India seems to have been at the confluence of various grassroots religious/spiritual traditions. One of the important texts in this regard is Dasavatar credited to have been written Pir Sadr-ud-din, the founder of the Khoja Ismaili sect in the 15th century, in Sindh. | Hindu Nizarpanthis | |
| A Comparison of the Refugee Resettlement of Ugandan Ismaili Muslims and Cambodian Theravada Buddhists in Canada | This paper will compare the resettlement and ability to recreate religious identities of refugees from Uganda and Cambodia. The specific religious identities of focus are Ugandan South-Asian Ismaili Muslims and Cambodian Khmer Theravada Buddhists, and their resettlement in Ontario, Canada. | ||
| App - Android application for Ginan, Dua, Speeches, Waez, Qasidas audio, text & meanings | 2025, October 12:: Ismaili Heritage has launched on the occasion of this Salgirah Khushiali, the Birthday of our Imam e Zaman Shah Rahim Aga Khan V, a new version of several Apps for Android. (IOS version will follow when ready) |
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| Avichal allah avichal khalak - Meaning and comments by Mumtaz Ali Tajdddin | The meaning of the Ginan " Avichal Allah, Avichal Khalaq" of Pir Sadardin. (d.1416) the ginans is 13 couplets is translated and commented line by line and on its concepts. | ||
| A Fatimid Decree of the Year 524 AH/1130 AD | The large collection of the Turkish and Arabic manuscripts at the St Catherine Monastery in Sinai contains several Decrees issued by various Fatimid Caliphs and in particular Mustealian Fatimid Caliphs. In some of those we find confirmation of the covenant of Prophet Muhammad with the Christians for their protection. Stern publishes here one of the Decree of the Regent Abd al Majid in this article. A PDF download is available from the link below. |
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| Antiquities of the Illuminati - 4. THE PURE BRETHREN OF BASRA | 4. THE PURE BRETHREN OF BASRA:
Isma'ili, Yezidi, Sufi.
IT IS an impossible task, presenting an entire history of schismatic Islamic sects and Secret Societies in a short chapter. None of the sects which we shall be surveying in this section fall under the category of Sabian, proper. |
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| A History of Medieval Islam - IX The Turkish Irruption | The entry of the Seljuk Turks into Western Asia in the second half of the eleventh century forms one of the great epochs of world history. | history | |
| An Introduction to Chogadia Ginans | By Mumtaz Ali Tajddin Sadiq Ali
The word gadi means "time", corresponding with the Koranic term, sa’a. During the Ancient times in India, day and night were measured in gadi instead of hours or minutes. |
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| Ainsi Parla Boudh Awatar de Pir Sadardin | Bouddh Avatar - Francais |
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| A SINDHI VERSION OF PIR SHAMS' DAS AVATAAR - An Unpublished Ginan | By Dr. Gulshan Khaki This paper is partly based on one of my previously published paper [1] and draws freely from it. The concept of Das Avataar has been mentioned in numerous Ginans. In the Ginanic literature there are three works which are specifically identified by the name Das Avtaar. | ||
| All About Ginans & Granths | Collection of Online Literature on Ginans & Granths Much of the content comes from the two SOS Khojki Conferences organized by the Heritage Society in 1990 and 1991. |
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| Anant Akhado - Translation | ANANT AKHAADO literally means a gathering of unlimited souls in an eternal context. ANANT AKHAADO AND ANANT NAA NAV CHHUGAA contain all the essential ideas about the ginaanic literature which encompass our theology, philosophy, history and ethics from the esoteric point of view. |
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| Amir Pir Mela in Sind & its Origin | The Ismailis in the province of Sind, Pakistan celebrate Amir Pir Mela (fair of Amir Pir) once a year in November. |
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| An Ismaili Interpretation of the Fall of Adam | During a recent stay in Cairo, I found in the Taimuriya library a manuscript copy of an interesting Ismaili work entitled Kitabu'l-idah wa'l-Bayan, by the Yemenite da'i Husain ibn 'Ali (*1) The manuscript is of 165 pages, 16 by 23 cms., in two hands-the first till p.70, at 22 lines per page, the s | Aadam |