Ismaili teachings assert that the fundamental purpose of human existence is to attain knowledge of…
Category: Philosophy
Abu Bakr ibn Tufayl (d. ca.1186), a philosopher, astronomer, court official, and physician to the Almohad ruler, was…
By Sujjawal Ahmad In the Middle Ages, Neoplatonic ideas were studied and discussed by many Muslim…
Ismailism belongs to the Shi‘a main stream of Islam. Recent scholarship, based on a more…
Sujjawal Ahmad looks at the view of God presented in the Classical Ismaili Philosophy. …
From the Institute of Ismaili Studies Symposium: Before the Printed Word: Texts, Scribes and Transmission.…
Excerpts: The didar does not mean mere an act of looking at the Imam. It…
Khalil Andani: Journal of Islamic Studies, etx054, https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/etx054 Published: 05 September 2017 Link: https://academic.oup.com/jis/article-abstract/4104486/The-Merits-of-the-Ba-iniyya-Al-Ghazali-s Abu Hamid al-Ghazal, one of…
Preface In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful God, the Blessed and Exalted…
The most extensive and in depth details of the event of Ghadir Khum ever recorded.…
“…that which perceives things as they are is the intellect, while knowledge is in the Pearl…
IsmailiGnosis.com Exclusive. There are two levels of time: Physical Time called Zaman and Spiritual Time called ‘Asr. This…
A former Dean of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, Professor Azim Nanji, defines Time and its properties as being critically important in the Shia Ismaili Tariqah of Islam:
Continuing from above. It is inconceivable for the simple (person) that time can be removed…
Time and space are the framework in which we formulate all of our current theories of…
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