Peter Willey (d. 2009) was the world authority on the Ismaili castles of Iran and Syria.
Category: Iran
Novruz is associated with various local traditions
Wladimir Ivanow was a noted Russian scholar who worked for a half a century on Ismaili studies in Iran and India.
Khaki Khurasani, Imamquli, Isma‘ili poet and preacher of 17th-century Persia was born in Dizbad
In the 1930s, on an instruction from the Imam, the Nizari villages of Khorasan got their first schools.
Governance in the Iranian Constitutions of the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Perspective
In memorium of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan’s birthday (Jan 17th).
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For centuries prior, postal stamps were both art and functional. Postal stamps continue to be…
Negotiators in Vienna announced early yesterday that they had reached an historic agreement between six…