“…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…
The fortress of Girdkuh in Persia (Iran) surrendered to the Mongols on December 15, 1270.1 Girdkuh,…
The eighth Fatimid Caliph and eighteenth Ismaili Imam, Abu Tamim Ma’add al-Mustansir bi’llah I passed…
The twenty-seventh Nizari Ismaili Imam Rukn al-Din Khurshah succeeded to the Imamat on December 1,…
“Three years ago the first Aga Khan Architectural Awards were announced in the fabled Shalimar…
Named after the Prophet’s daughter, the Fatimids established their empire in 909 in North Africa…
Mawlana Hazar Imam visited Bombay (now Mumbai), India, on August 6, 1957
Mawlana Hazar Imam visited Salamiyya, Syria for the first time as Imam, on July 27, 1959.
Imam Mustansir bi’llah succeeded to the Imamat and the Fatimid caliphate in June 1036
Qadi al-Nu‘man, passed away on March 27, 974 in Cairo
The Dar al-Ilm (House of Knowledge) was inaugurated on March 24, 1005
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