Dr Farhad Daftary, Co-Director of The Institute of Ismaili Studies and, since 1992, Head of…
Tag: History
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,…