This is an edited version of an article which was originally published in Ilm Vol. 3, No.3, December 1977, pp.16-17.
I came in touch with the Ismailis for the first time in Persia, in February 1912. The world was quite different then. No one imagined that the Great World War I, with all its misery and suffering, was just around the corner. Persia was still living in her ancestral mediaeval style, and her affairs were largely going on in their traditional ways, as they were going on for centuries.
via The Institute of Ismaili Studies – My First Meeting with the Ismailis in Persia.
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