On September 4, 1090 Hasan-i Sabbah acquired Alamut, a remote mountain-fortress in the Rudbur region…
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By: Sadruddin Noorani, Chicago, USA The Islamic Calendar is based on cycles of the moon…
Ginans are a vast collection comprising several hundred poetic compositions which have been a central…
Read the complete review at the source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09596410.2020.1768660 Alyjan Daya graduated from the University of…
“The medical authorities in Bombay were overwhelmed by the magnitude, and (as it seemed) the…
Chapter published in Deconstructing Islamic Studies edited by Majid Daneshgar and Aaron W. Hughes (Harvard University Press,…
Ismailimail is excited to share this post. We are humbled to play a small part…
Recently, Dr. Khalil Andani was invited on the Abbasid History podcast to give an introduction…
When one visits the Khoja Ismaili Jamatkhana in Iringa, there is a picture hanging on…
Religious identity in the Pamirs – The institutionalisation of theIsma’Ili Da’wa in Shughnan Introduction: Earliest…
The career of the queen Sayyida Hurra is a unique instance of its kind in…
Hakim Nizari Quhistan (d. 721/1321), one of the eminent and original Persian poets of the…
“This article re-examines the use of the term naṣs, which since Marshall Hodgson has been…
Imam Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan III succeeded as Imam on August 17, 1885…
“Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed does a remarkable – though not flawless – job in presenting a…