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Category: Iran
Aga Khan Museum brings together a fascinating selection of masterpieces created under the Qajar dynasty…
The Association for Iranian Studies Conference taking place at UC Irvine on August 15, 2018…
We are immensely thankful to Andrew Kosorok for this exclusive interview with popular author and…
In our age of social media and selfies, it may be difficult to grasp the…
Winners of the 35th Iran National Award for Book of the Year and the 25th…
Story of an Iranian Ismaili who passed away in July 2017. We are presenting this…
A love poem written by Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet, is the inspiration for an…
Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations presents Medieval Kashan: Crossroads of…
Mubarak Muhammad Ali Sorathiya is a physiotherapist, artist and actor.
Hasan-i Sabbah, founder of the Nizari Ismaili state of Alamut, arrived in Fatimid Cairo in…
The Shahnama (The Book of King), composed by the Persian poet Firdawsi (940-1020) around the year…
Farīd Ud-Dīn Attar, a pharmacist and poet in 12th-century Nishapur, Iran, composed The Conference of the Birds as a Sufi allegory for the soul’s journey to the Divine
This approach to modern architecture has garnered great results for Iranian talents
Mohandez, the Canadian society of Iranian engineers and architects, sponsored Kanani’s lectures at Toronto’s Aga Khan Museum and an Iranian community centre.
Fearful that Persia’s history would be forgotten, Abu’l-Qasim Firdawsi (940-1020) composed the Shahnama (Book of Kings), comprising more than 60,000 rhyming couplets
In 1598, Shah Abbas moved the Persian capital to Isfahan. Here, he commissioned a remarkable sequence of ambitious and beautiful religious and civic buildings.
While resources on the internet summarize world wide honors invested on Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan,…
You’re going to want to see this. The Aga Khan Museum‘s latest exhibition is not only…
Friday, March 10, 8 pm Saturday, March 11, 3 pm and 8 pm Sunday, March…
Abu’l-Qasim Firdawsi (940-1020) completed his epic work, the Shahnama (Book of Kings), on February 25, 10101. Fearful…
Behind the Scenes: Installation of Farhad Moshiri’s “Flying Carpet” On Monday, January 30, the Aga…
Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto until June…
‘Now the message is imperative,’ with Trump as U.S. president, Iranian art collector says By…
On February 4, 1280, Nizari Quhistan (1247-1320), one of the most distinguished poets of thirteenth-century Persia…
