Welcome to F.I.E.L.D.- the First Ismaili Electronic Library and Database.

Russian Ismailis

0022-RUSSIAN ISMAILIS - 1989

MP3 Mono 22kHz 32Kbps (CBR) 45:57 minutes (10.52 MB)

This file cannot be listened to online. Please use the download link in order to listen to it on your computer.

Ismailis in Russia

In Russia, or U.S.S.R., Ismaili villages are only found in the valley of the river Panj which, after its confluence with Wakhsh, or Wakhshab, forms the mighty Oxus or Amu-Darya river of Central Asia. These Ismailis are often wrongly called "Pamir Ismailis", not because they inhabit the plateau of the "Roof of the World", Pamir, but because they reside on its borders, in the gorges which open into the valley of Panj. Only few Qirgniz nomad tribes who with their flocks roam the cold and arid expanse of the Pamir tableland, deserve to be called the real inhabitants of the place.


Syndicate content

Back to top