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| 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 | |
| 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. | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| The Entanglement of the Ginans in Khoja Governance | Ginans Ismailis Khojas | ||
| The Entanglement of the Ginans in Khoja Governance | The disputes amongst the Khojas regarding the payment of dues, the use of common property, the management of the community came under the jurisdiction of the civil courts. | Ginans Ismailis Khojas | |
| THE NETWORK OF ISMAʿILI CASTLES IN THE ALAMUT REGION: POWER AND GOVERNANCE | In 1090, Hasan-i Sabbah (1050s –1124), the mysterious leader of the Nizari Ismaʿilis in Persia, obtained control of Alamut Castle, one of the major existing castles in the northern part of Iran, and reinforced it as the headquarters of his activities against the Seljuq government. | Alamut Castles, Hasan-i Sabbah, Nizari Ismaʿilis | |
| The origins, evolution and decline of the Khojki script | The Khojki script is an Indian script whose origins are in Sindh (now southern Pakistan), a region that has witnessed the conflict between Islam and Hinduism for more than 1,200 years. | Khojki Script Decline | |
| The Ismaili "Ginan" Tradition from the Indian Subcontinent | Ginans are devotional songs rooted in the musical and poetic matrix of Indian culture. | Ginans Ismaili Jamat Khana | |
| The Fatimids and the Red Sea | From 969 to 1073, the Red Sea does not seem to have been of much interest to the Fatimids. During this period, the Fatimid imams were engaged in an ideological struggle with the Abbasids, and the main territory for this battle was the Hijaz and its holy Muslim cities. | IMAMS, Fatimids | |
| 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) | ||
| The Beginnings of Ismaili Dawa in Northern India | This is an attempt by the author in 1954 to explain how Ismaili Dawa started in India. Very early during the Fatimids, Ismaili Dawa had reached all parts of India. Balouchistan was Ismaili. In Hind and Sind, there was also strong Ismaili Influence as well as in Multan. | ||
| The `Das Avatara' of Satpanthi Ismailis and Imam Shahis of Indo-Pakistan. | The full text of Gulshan Khakhee's thesis is attached to the bibliography link. |
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| The Aga Khan III and His Ancestors by N. Dumasia - Book in PDF format | Written by Dumasia in 1939 when Aga Khan III was still alive, this book covers a number of years of the Imam's life and shows his long lasting influence on the world scene from a very early age. Download attachments links below. Click on the pdf to read the full text. The 375 pages of the book are divided in 2 parts (10 MB each.) |
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| The Teacher | Ya Ali Madad. {\.r:;.!L . As promised in our introduction yesterday, we will discuss orne of the basic things that we do in Jamat Khana. Before we go into these rituals, it is very important to know what is our TARIQA.We will try to discuss this very briefly. Our Tariqa is a small group of SHIA branch of Islamic Umah, which (our Tariqa) believes in ESSENCE. And what is that ESSENCE? The ESSENCE is NOOR OF ALLAH. Imam of the time is the bearer of that NOOR, that is why everything in our Tariqa revolves around Imam of the time. |
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| The Aga Khan our personality of the year | AKTC, Aga Khan Museum, AKAA | ||
| The Memoirs of Aga Khan - Full Book | The Memoirs of AGA KHAN : WORLD ENOUGH AND TIME BY HIS HIGHNESS THE AGA KHAN, P.C., G.C.S.I., G.C.V.O., G.C.I.E. 1954, Simon and Schuster, New York NOTE THAT THIS VERSION IS POSTED AS-RECEIVED. APPARENTLY THERE ARE SOME MISTAKES, SO PLEASE SEND US ANY CORRECTIONS, AND WE WILL ENTER THEM AS WE RECEIVE THEM CONTENTS PREFACE BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Part One: CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH I A Bridge Across the Years 3 Part Two: YOUNG MANHOOD |
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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. | GINAN | |
| The Ismailis of Afghanistan | The Ismailis in Afghanistan (Revised text) |
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| The Concept of God Beyond God in the Khat Nirinjan of Pir Sadardin | [Full text is available for download in the attached pdf.] A personal exegesis by Nagib Tajdin Extract: "There were many ways to look at the beginning of this work. One way would have been to analyze the Love Relation between Brahma and its Origin. | God in ismailism, Nagib Tajdin | |
| THE KHOJA CASE 1866 - A Paraphrase | THE KHOJA CASE 1866 - A PARAPHRASE The celebrated Khoja case which lasted for 25 days was litigated in the High Court of Bombay between the months of April and June, 1866, before Justice SIR JOSEPH ARNOULD. WHO WERE THE PARTIES The Plaintiffs were Daya Mahomad, Mahomad Saya, Peer Mohamed Cassumb | Case |