Ismailism belongs to the Shi‘a main stream of Islam. Recent scholarship, based on a more…
Category: Philosophy
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…
Source: The Islamic Monthly, by Khalil Andani Until recently, most people learned about Ismaili beliefs…
Ismaili Muslims and their hereditary Imams have emerged today onto the global public sphere with a message of hope based on acts of compassion and pluralism.
Model of Individual Human Development to the Fullest Potential – Based on the Qur’anic Concept of Human Being
A lecture commemorating Yawm-e-Ali, the birthday of Hazrat Ali, is being given by Syed Ali Abbas Razawi, Director General of the Scottish Ahlul Bayt Society, at the Ismaili Centre, Toronto on Saturday, 1 April 2017.
March 9, 2017: Keynote Address at 2nd International Ismaili Studies Conference by Carleton University’s Islamic…
The Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam, under the leadership of Professor Karim H.…
Medieval philosophers don’t get much attention these days but Avicenna deserves it, says Prof Peter…
Call for Papers (CFP): “Shiʿism and Governance” Abstract submission deadline: February 24th, 2017 Symposium Date:…
In Nasir-i Khusraw’s system, the physical world is a product resulting directly from Soul’s desire…
In European antiquity, philosophers largely wrote in Greek. Even after the Roman conquest of the…
Jabir ibn Hayyan (d. ca 815) was born in Tus, Khurasan, in modern-day Iran. He…
This international conference and subsequent edited volume aim at bringing together a series of case…
In classical Ismaili cosmology, the first Existent Being that gets originated as a result of …
