We have previously featured Dr. Shafique N. Virani’s The Ismailis in the Middle Ages as…
Category: History
Just over five hundred years ago, an Ismaili pilgrim from Khurasan undertook the long and…
Peter Willey’s Eagle’s Nest is devoted to the Ismaili castles in Iran and Syria. According…
The Ismailis and their Role in the History of Medieval Syria and the Near East…
Ancient Greek Babylonian and Indian mathematicians had all found ways of calculating missing numbers. Al-Khwarizmi…
One of the Takht Nashini ceremonies to celebrate Mawlana Hazar Imam’s ascension to the throne…
The Dar al-Ilm (House of Knowledge) was founded in Cairo, Egypt by the Fatimid Caliph-Imam…
Ma’ad al-Mu’izz li Dīn Allah (932–975) (Arabic: معاذ المعز لدين الله), also known as al’Moezz,…
From ArchNet.org The Middle East Garden Tradition The Gardens of the Mughal Empire Two new…
Derived from the Persian khwajah, a term of honour, the word Khoja referred to those…
Over a thousand years ago, Europe experienced one of its greatest periods of cultural enlightenment.…
The word Ginan is derived from Sanskrit. Derived from the Sanskrit word jnana meaning contemplative…
Religious Traditions and Early Ismaili History in South Asia: Some Historical Perspectives on Satpanthi Literature…