| The Entanglement of the Ginans in Khoja Governance |
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Ginans Ismailis Khojas |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Circulars of The Religious Study Group Of Mombasa (Consolidated) |
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Ismaili Study Group Mombasa |
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| Salah al-Din and Syrian Assassins |
Since ancient times in the East lots of religio-philosophical and mystical sects have been established, but most of them collapsed and disappeared during the centuries. The Islamic era was not an exception. |
Syrian Assassins |
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| 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. |
Ismaili Studies Conference |
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| Redefining Muslim Women: Aga Khan III’s Reforms for Women’s Education |
In the history of Muslim India, the late nineteenth and early twentieth century formed a period that
witnessed intense public contestation over the role of women in society. |
Ismaili Women's Education |
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| 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. |
Persecution – Ismaʿili missionaries – Nāser Khosrow – Fatimids – Abbasids – Central Asia |
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| A Modern History of the Ismailis Continuity and Change in a Muslim Community |
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Modern History Ismailis |
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| 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 |
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| Isma‘ili Da‘wa and Politics in Fatimid Egypt |
This paper will discuss the mutual influence between politics and the Isma‘ili da‘wa, particularly after the establishment of the Fatimid government in Egypt. |
ismaili Dawa Egypt |
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| ISLAMISATION ON THE IRANIAN PERIPHERY: NASIR-I KHUSRAW AND ISMAILISM IN BADAKHSHAN |
IT HAS LONG BEEN recognised in the scholarship on Islamisation that Muslim governors and administrators in Iran and Central Asia under the early caliphate, with few exceptions, displayed little interest in instigating mass conversion to Islam. |
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| Historical Dictionary of the Ismailis |
The historical dictionaries present essential information on a broad range of subjects, including American and world history, art, business, cities, countries, cultures, customs, film, global conflicts, international relations, literature, music, philosophy, religion, sports, and theater. |
ismaili history |
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| Has Kalki Already Appeared as ʿAlī? The Influence of Hindu Beliefs on the Nizārī Ismaili Khojas |
The Historical Interaction of Hinduism and Islam since the seventh century has witnessed periods of cooperation and syncretism. |
GINAN, Hindu-Muslim interaction |
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| 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 |
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| Fatimids: A Legacy of Pluralism |
This paper attempts to explore the evolution of the concept of pluralism and its functioning through a religious perspective by examining the 11th century medieval Muslim regime of The Fatimids. |
2020 |
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| Fatimid Da’wa and Ismaili resistance to Seljuq rule in Iran |
One of the most thrilling and complex chapters in Muslim History is undoubtedly framed in the events taking place from the rise of the Fatimid Dinasty in Egypt (969 AD) until the fall of the Seljuq Empire in Persia (1194 AD). |
Fatimid Dinasty, Seljuq Empire |
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| English and the transnational Ismaili Muslim community: Identity, the Aga Khan, and infrastructure |
The adoption of English as the official language of the transnational Ismaili Muslim community has its roots in the British Raj, which provides the backdrop for recent Ismaili history. |
Aga Khan, Ismaili Muslim |
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| 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 |
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| An Assessment Batiniyya In History Of Seljuk |
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history, Seljuks |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Alamūt, Ismailism and Khwāja Qāsim Tushtarī’s Recognizing God |
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history |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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