Selected verses from a poem titled Recognition of the Imam by Fida’i Khurasani: He is always present,…
Category: Muslim Scholars
Shams-ud-din Muhammad, one of the most celebrated of the Persian poets, known by his pen-name…
From the Latin texere meaning ‘to weave,’ woven cloth has been in use for many…
The foremost Ismali jurist and founder of Fatimid Ismaili legal system al-Qadi al-Nu’man was born…
The study of the heavens is as old as humanity. Long before clocks and calendars,…
Case Study By Zuzanna Błajet – Abstract The mass influx of people from the former…
Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi, better known as Nasir al-Din Tusi, one of the…
Islam has a long history in the People’s Republic of China, dating to the seventh…
South-African born Sumayya Vally’s design, research, and pedagogical practice, Counterspace, is centred on finding form…
Abu Bakr ibn Tufayl (d. ca.1186), a philosopher, astronomer, court official, and physician to the Almohad ruler, was…
Born around 1212, the twenty-sixth Ismaili Imam Mawlana Ala al-Din Muhammad succeeded his father to…
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, one of the major intellectual scholars of the thirteenth century who contributed…
Given Professor Asani’s interest in the experience of Islam through the sound arts, this episode contains selections from Qur’anic recitation, qawwali, and the ginans, the devotional hymns of South Asia’s Nizari Ismaili communities.
Ismailis have made outstanding contributions to Muslim literature. The da‘ wa produced a body of…
Recently, Dr. Khalil Andani was invited on the Abbasid History podcast to give an introduction…
The Sorrowful Muslim’s Guide by Hussein Ahmad Amin, Translated by Yasmin Amin, Nesrin Amin published…
Watch this short video excerpt of Professor Ali Asani describing “water as a gift from…
Ibn Sina’s 1038th Birthday #GoogleDoodle. One of the pre-modern world’s most influential philosophers, Ibn Sina…
Watch and listen to this short video excerpt of Seyyed Hossein Nasr explain his long…
Watch this short video excerpt of Professor Ali Asani giving a quick history of Ismaili…
His Highness the Aga Khan: Reminiscences of over Six Decades By Seyyed Hossein Nasr In…
Watch this short 2 minutes video excerpt of scholar Aziz Esmail. He describes the elusive…
We are immensely thankful to Andrew Kosorok for this exclusive interview with popular author and…
My family hails from Iran, and I was born in Florida. I spent a significant…
If the Imam of the Time were to ask you: ‘Do you know what an…
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