August 4, 2022, Ottawa, Canada The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement…
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Islam has a long history in the People’s Republic of China, dating to the seventh…
Following the death of Fatimid Caliph-Imam al-Mustansir bi’llah in 1094, there was a dispute over…
The medieval tales known as Legends of the Assassins were fabricated stories about the Nizari…
Khojas constitute the predominant group in the Shi’a Nizari Isma’ili movement of Islam, globally and…
Named after the sixth Imam, the Ismailis, during the course of history, have, under the…
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…
Chand Raat of Rabi’ al-Awwal 1443 – 7th October, 2021: Diversity Within the Ismaili Muslim Community
By: Sadruddin Noorani, Chicago, USA Allah says in the Holy Qur’an, “Oh humankind, We have created…
Applicants for these internships must be between 15 and 30 years old, Canadian Citizens, permanent…
Dr Farhad Daftary, Co-Director of The Institute of Ismaili Studies and, since 1992, Head of…
Between 1998 to 2012, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture restored eight major monuments in…
NASA engineer Farah Alibay speaks with CBC Montreal’s Debra Arbec about the rover’s landing and…
By: Sadruddin Noorani, Chicago, USA On this day, the 13th of Rajab, Ismaili Muslims as well…
Named after the Prophet’s daughter, the Fatimids – Mawlana Hazar Imam’s ancestors – ruled over…
The Ismailis are the second-largest Shi’i community in the world today, settled in over 25…
Ali Jan S. Damani’s latest publication is a review of a book entitled “The Ismaili…
Ginans refer to the poetic compositions authored by Ismaili Pirs, who came to the Indian subcontinent as early…
Pirs and Sayyids, endowed with spiritual knowledge and experience, composed poetry known as ginans in local Indic…
By: Sadruddin Noorani, Chicago, USA The Islamic Calendar is based on cycles of the moon…
Zawahir Noorally (now, Zawahir Moir) prepared a catalogue of 114 Khojki manuscripts in 1971. The…
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,…
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