WORLD JAMATKHANAS - Searchable list!
The WORLD JAMATKHANAS section has been revamped into a searchable tool where you can now help us complete the missing information.
This section is part of the new Ismaili History Section of the Heritage Website. See the new tab at the top of the page.
HISTORY SECTION
Access the History Section through the tab at the top of the page, and explore the 8 new sections that it contains.
The HISTORY section endeavours to put our Ismaili Heritage at our fingertips so that we may easily navigate through the Events, the Readings, the People, and the Places of Ismaili History.
This section was unveiled on the occasion of Navroz 2009. It is a work in progress where content will be continuously added and enriched. Please feel free to make your content contributions to heritage@ismaili.net.
Editing Historic Events
I made a page that makes it easy for you to edit event entries. For each node that needs to be changed, enter the change, and click update. You may fix the year, the title, or the description. Just beware of all the delete buttons!
http://ismaili.net/heritage/edit_historicevents
Audience
Aga Khan III Event - 1947-03-30
Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah with Mata Salamat Begum Aga Khan
March 30, 1947 - Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, Aga Khan III and Her Royal Highness Begum Aga Khan, Om Habibah receive the honorary citizenship of Le Cannet .
Related People & Places
Missing News Event Dates
When Full Date was Unknown, 01 was used as placeholder for missing month/day info
How to Add New JK Information
To Add information about an existing Jamatkhana
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To Add New Jamatkhanas
If you find one or more Jamatkhanas missing, please write us through the contact form and select the category "Submit New Jamatkhana".
Ismaili Hero Summaries
Ismaili Hero - Hassan Bin Sabbah
ll historians and biographers are unanimous that Sayyidna Hasan was an outstanding, highly qualified authority on sciences of politics and mathematics. He was also an expert in the skills of administration and his organization was very precise and up to the mark.
Due to these qualities, the ruler Malik Shah was highly impressed by him and used to take his counsel on matters of administration.
During his life time, he achieved his aims like freedom of Ismaili territory, freedom to practice the Ismaili faith and the establishing of peace between him and his opponents.
Ismaili Hero - Abd al-Malik ibn Attash
Abd al-Malik ibn Attash was one of the greatest Ismaili Da'is and possessed remarkable knowledge of religion and philosophy. His exact date of birth is unknown but it is certain that he came in Ramadan 484/1091 to Ray, where he met the Da'is Abu Nazm, Abu Mu'min and Hasan al-Sabah who were able, with his help, to spread the Ismaili beliefs in the various Persian regions and other countries.
Besides his skill in propaganda, he was a great military leader and was able to capture many important places in Adharbayjan and Syria. He also seized the castle of al-Firdaws in Quhistan where he founded a school for the Ismailis from which more than 30 000 are said to have graduated; this castle had been built be one of the Saljuq Sultans. In the early years of the sixth century A.H., his Da'is took possession of a number of castles in Syria, among them al-Qadmus and Banyas, and in Persia Shirkuh, Qa'in and others. During his life, many Persian princes embraces Ismailism and when the Saljuq Malik Shah saw that Ismailism had spread through the 'length and breadth' of the country, he feared for his sovereignty and began warring against the Ismailis. The war continued under Malik Shah's successors and in the course of it Abd al-Malik ibn Attash met his death.