“…we were touching the very foundations of my ancestors, the Fatimids, and the pluralistic history…
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Mawlana Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III (r.1885-1957) established a research institution, the Ismaili…
Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi, better known as Nasir al-Din Tusi, one of the…
Following the death of Fatimid Caliph-Imam al-Mustansir bi’llah in 1094, there was a dispute over…
Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III was born on November 2, 1877 in Karachi…
Hasan-i Sabbah, founder of the Nizari Ismaili state of Alamut, arrived in Fatimid Cairo in…
Imam Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan III succeeded as Imam on August 17, 1885…
Abu’l-Qasim Firdawsi (940-1020) completed his epic work, the Shahnama (Book of Kings), on February 25, 10101. Fearful…
In 1090, the Persian Ismailis acquired the castle of Alamut situated in a remote and…
“They [Ismailis] with amazing care and devotion kept through ages burning that Light, mentioned in…
On February 4, 1280, Nizari Quhistan (1247-1320), one of the most distinguished poets of thirteenth-century Persia…
Imam Hasan Ali Shah succeeded to the Imamat in 1817 at the age of 13 in…
“Beginning in 1980 and every three years thereafter, I propose to offer a substantial monetary…
“There are those who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of…
In December 1964, His Highness the Aga Khan announced his desire to build a modern…
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